Software Engineer

The team is responsible for developing and maintaining software systems that support iterative development, testing, and deployment, enabling high velocity and a frictionless development cycle.

As a Software Engineer, you will develop and maintain software systems that support OpenAI’s build system and infrastructure, with a focus on scalability, performance, observability, and reliability.

This role is based in San Francisco, CA. Telecommuting is permitted from within the U.S.

In this role, you will:

• Develop and maintain software systems for iterative development, testing, and deployment

• Design and implement continuous integration pipelines, testing infrastructure, and support around OpenAI’s build system

• Work on scalability, performance, observability, and security of infrastructure to meet rapidly increasing demands

• Collaborate with cross functional teams to specify and implement availability, performance, correctness, and efficiency requirements

• Proactively monitor systems to identify issues and anomalies and implement fault tolerant and resilient design patterns

• Build and maintain automation tools to streamline repetitive tasks and improve system reliability

• Participate in an on call rotation to respond to critical incidents and ensure 24/7 system availability

$160,000 to $300,000 per year

About OpenAI

OpenAI is an AI research and deployment company dedicated to ensuring that general-purpose artificial intelligence benefits all of humanity. We push the boundaries of the capabilities of AI systems and seek to safely deploy them to the world through our products. AI is an extremely powerful tool that must be created with safety and human needs at its core, and to achieve our mission, we must encompass and value the many different perspectives, voices, and experiences that form the full spectrum of humanity. 

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