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Software Engineer, Cloud Infrastructure

OpenAI· Applied AI
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San Francisco$230k - $490kFull-timePosted 11mo ago

About the role

Role focused on designing, building, and maintaining OpenAI’s cloud infrastructure to enable scalable, reliable, and secure product delivery (e.g., ChatGPT and API). Based in San Francisco, with on-call responsibilities and ongoing collaboration across research, engineering, product, and design.

Responsibilities

  • Design and build the development and production platforms that power our products, enabling reliability and security at scale
  • Ensure our infrastructure can scale to the next order of magnitude
  • Help create a diverse, equitable, and inclusive culture that makes all feel welcome while enabling radical candor and the challenging of group think
  • 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 building core infrastructure
  • Have experience operating orchestration systems such as Kubernetes at scale
  • Have experience building abstractions over cloud platforms
  • Take pride in building and operating scalable, reliable, secure systems
  • Are comfortable with ambiguity and rapid change

Skills

Required:Cloud infrastructure design and engineeringKubernetesCloud platforms abstractions

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 and up to 15 days annually for non-exempt employees
  • 13+ paid company holidays and paid company office closures, 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 offices and meal delivery credits
  • Relocation support for eligible employees
  • Additional taxable fringe benefits (e.g., charitable donation matching, wellness stipends) may be provided
Last updated Jul 16, 2026. Interested? Apply on the company site.

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