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Software Engineer, Resilience Engineering

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

About the role

OpenAI is seeking experienced engineers to ensure the reliability, scalability, and performance of its rapidly evolving infrastructure. The role focuses on building resilient systems, tooling, and automation to support growth while maintaining safety and reliability.

Responsibilities

  • Design and implement solutions to ensure the scalability of our infrastructure to meet rapidly increasing demands.
  • Build and maintain the load, chaos and synthetic-testing software leveraged by development teams to make the systems they design and operate more reliable.
  • Build and maintain automation tools to streamline repetitive tasks and improve system reliability.
  • Build and maintain the platform for CPU, storage, GPU, and network lifecycle management to drive efficiency, accountability and dynamic optimization of our resources.
  • Implement fault-tolerant and resilient design patterns to minimize service disruptions.
  • Develop and maintain service level objectives (SLOs) and service level indicators (SLIs) to measure and ensure system reliability.
  • Partner with researchers, engineers, product managers, and designers to bring new features and research capabilities to the world.
  • Participate in an on-call rotation to respond to critical incidents and ensure 24/7 system availability.

Qualifications

  • Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, or a related field (or equivalent work experience).
  • Proven experience as an SWE focused on reliability or a similar role in a fast-paced, rapidly scaling company.
  • Strong proficiency in cloud infrastructure.
  • Proficiency in programming languages.
  • Experience with containerization technologies and container orchestration platforms like Kubernetes.
  • Knowledge of IaC tools such as Terraform or CloudFormation.
  • Excellent problem-solving and troubleshooting skills.
  • Strong communication and collaboration skills.
  • Experience with observability tools such as Datadog, Prometheus, Grafana and Splunk.
  • Experience with microservices architecture and service mesh technologies.
  • Knowledge of security best practices in cloud environments.

Skills

Required:Cloud infrastructureProgramming languagesContainerization and KubernetesIaC (Terraform or CloudFormation)Observability toolsSRE / Reliability engineering

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 to fuel your professional growth
  • 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, may also be provided.
Last updated Aug 20, 2026. Interested? Apply on the company site.

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