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Software Engineer, Developer Productivity

OpenAI· Applied AI
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San Francisco, New York City, Seattle, Mountain View$210k - $490kFull-timePosted 11mo ago

About the role

Role focused on designing and building foundational tools, systems, and processes to accelerate engineering velocity and productivity for OpenAI's ChatGPT and API infrastructure.

Responsibilities

  • Drive the design, development, and implementation of tools, systems, and processes that accelerate engineering velocity, reduce manual effort, and increase the quality of output.
  • Use our latest AI tools to re-think how we can be the most productive team in the industry.
  • Work closely with various teams within OpenAI to understand their workflows, challenges, and needs, and ensure the tools and systems built by the Engineering Acceleration team address these requirements.
  • Bring new features and research capabilities to the world by partnering with product engineers to lay the necessary technical foundations.
  • Guide and advise product engineering teams on best practices for ensuring observable, scalable systems.
  • Like all other teams, we are responsible for the reliability of the systems we build. This includes an on-call rotation to respond to critical incidents as needed.

Qualifications

  • Have 5+ years of experience in engineering, including 3+ years of experience in infrastructure building tooling for developers.
  • Have experience-driven empathy for the tools, frustrations, and processes that slow engineering teams down and lead to toil or burnout.
  • Have a voracious and intrinsic desire to learn and fill in missing skills—and an equally strong talent for sharing learnings clearly and concisely with others.
  • Are comfortable with ambiguity and rapidly changing conditions. You view changes as an opportunity to add structure and order when necessary.

Skills

Required:Infrastructure tooling for developersObservability and scalable systemsCollaboration with cross-functional teamsLearning mindset and knowledge sharing

Benefits

  • Medical, dental, and vision insurance for you and your family, with employer contributions to Health Savings Accounts
  • Pre-tax accounts for Health FSA, Dependent Care FSA, and commuter expenses (parking and transit)
  • 401(k) retirement plan with employer match
  • Paid parental leave (up to 24 weeks for birth parents and 20 weeks for non-birthing parents), plus paid medical and caregiver leave (up to 8 weeks)
  • Paid time off: flexible PTO for exempt employees and up to 15 days annually for non-exempt employees
  • 13+ paid company holidays, and multiple paid coordinated company office closures throughout the year for focus and recharge, plus paid sick or safe time
  • Mental health and wellness support
  • Employer-paid basic life and disability coverage
  • Annual learning and development stipend
  • Daily meals in our offices, and meal delivery credits as eligible
  • Relocation support for eligible employees
  • Additional taxable fringe benefits, such as charitable donation matching and wellness stipends
Last updated Sep 24, 2026. Interested? Apply on the company site.

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