# Software Engineer, Real Time
**Company:** [OpenAI](https://hotfix.jobs/companies/openai)
**Location:** Seattle, WA
**Salary:** $185K-$385K
**Skills:** Kubernetes, Go, Python, Terraform, Kafka, Postgres, Snowflake, Webrtc, Real-Time Communication, Machine Learning
**Posted:** 2024-07-10
> Build and scale real-time communication systems using WebRTC and infrastructure tools like Kubernetes and Go to power advanced AI products. Requires full-stack experience with production systems at scale and on-call support.
## Job Description
## Responsibilities
- Design and build development and production platforms that power our systems.
- Partner with researchers, engineers, product managers, and designers to bring new features and research capabilities to the world.
- Accelerate engineering productivity by empowering your fellow engineers with excellent tooling and systems.
- Build and provide operational support for globally deployed systems, powering some of the most advanced products in the market. This includes participating in an on-call rotation to respond to critical incidents as needed.

## Requirements
- Significant experience building (and rebuilding) production systems to deliver new product capabilities and handle increasing scale.
- Experience with real-time communication products and systems, including audio and video calling, **WebRTC** or competing protocols, encoding/decoding, signaling, lip sync, etc.
- Care deeply about user experience and take pride in building products that solve customer needs.
- Humble attitude, eagerness to help colleagues, and a willingness to do whatever it takes to make the team succeed.
- Own problems end-to-end and are willing to pick up any necessary knowledge to get the job done.
- Have been a startup founder or an early-stage engineer.

## Nice-to-Haves
- Experience in Machine Learning techniques.
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