OpenAI is looking to scale the systems that drive their customer-facing products like ChatGPT and the OpenAI API, ensuring reliability, security, and a world-class user experience for millions of users and developers.
Requirements
- Are proficient in one or more backend languages (e.g., Python, Go, Rust, or similar) and distributed systems concepts.
- Enjoy building infrastructure that supports billions of requests and petabytes of data.
- Care deeply about reliability, safety, and performance in production environments.
Responsibilities
- Design and build robust backend services and APIs that power products like ChatGPT and the OpenAI API.
- Develop scalable data pipelines and storage systems for high-volume, low-latency workloads.
- Improve system reliability, observability, and security across production environments.
- Collaborate with product and research teams to translate cutting-edge AI into dependable, user-ready features.
- Participate in an on-call rotation to maintain uptime and respond to critical incidents.
- Architect and maintain the services and infrastructure that power OpenAI applications—from large-scale distributed systems and databases to APIs and data pipelines.
Other
- Have up to 6 years of professional software engineering experience.
- We are an equal opportunity employer, and we do not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, color, national origin, sex, sexual orientation, age, veteran status, disability, genetic information, or other applicable legally protected characteristic.
- Qualified applicants with arrest or conviction records will be considered for employment in accordance with applicable law, including the San Francisco Fair Chance Ordinance, the Los Angeles County Fair Chance Ordinance for Employers, and the California Fair Chance Act.
