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Software Engineer, Observability

OpenAI· Applied AI
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San Francisco, New York City, Mountain View$266k - $445k + equityFull-timePosted 8mo ago

About the role

OpenAI is hiring software engineers to build the observability product across infra, backend, and product, focusing on scalable infrastructure, AI-native tooling, and UI experiences to make production systems reliable, performant, and observable at petabyte-scale.

Responsibilities

  • Own core observability infrastructure, including distributed logging, time series, and trace storage
  • Build AI-native tools that help engineers detect, understand, and resolve issues autonomously.
  • Contribute to UI experiences like dashboards, notebooking, or interactive debugging
  • Collaborate closely with engineers, researchers, user ops, and other teams across the company to build the next generation observability product

Qualifications

  • Have operated large-scale distributed systems in production (especially logging systems or time series databases)
  • Thrive in ambiguous environments and solve unscoped problems
  • Full-stack chops or product sensibilities—able to build real tools people use
  • Strong fundamentals in systems, networking, and cloud infra (Kubernetes, AWS, etc)
  • Bonus: built or contributed to observability systems (e.g. Prometheus, OpenTelemetry, etc)

Skills

Required:Distributed systems operationsFull-stack developmentSystems, networking, cloud infrastructure
Nice to have:Observability tooling experience

Benefits

  • Medical, dental, and vision insurance for you and your family, with employer contributions to Health Savings Accounts
  • Pre-tax 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 paid sick time as required by law
  • 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)
Last updated Sep 3, 2026. Interested? Apply on the company site.

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