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Software Engineer, Delivery / CD

OpenAI· Applied AI
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San Francisco, New York City, Seattle$230k - $490k + equityFull-timePosted 7mo ago

About the role

Role focused on building and operating continuous deployment systems to safely ship OpenAI’s infrastructure and product code to production, with emphasis on developer productivity, reliability, and large-scale infrastructure orchestration.

Responsibilities

  • Design and build continuous deployment infrastructure that safely rolls out changes across dozens of Kubernetes clusters and global regions.
  • Develop systems for progressive delivery, including canary releases, staged rollouts, and automated rollback.
  • Improve engineering velocity by reducing friction in the release pipeline and automating manual operational workflows.
  • Work with product and infrastructure teams to ensure their services are deployable, observable, and resilient at scale.
  • Implement and evolve deployment methodologies such as GitOps, infrastructure-as-code, and progressive delivery patterns.
  • Build systems that automatically evaluate deployment health using metrics, logs, traces, and alerts to detect regressions and trigger safe rollbacks.
  • Build systems that support agent-assisted or autonomous deployment workflows using modern AI tooling.

Qualifications

  • Have worked with Kubernetes-based deployment systems at scale
  • Have experience building or operating continuous deployment platforms
  • Are familiar with GitOps tooling such as ArgoCD or Flux
  • Are excited about building AI-assisted systems and agents that intelligently shepherd software changes from commit to safe production rollout
  • Care deeply about safe production rollouts and minimizing blast radius
  • Enjoy building internal platforms that improve developer productivity across the organization

Skills

Required:Kubernetes deployment at scaleContinuous deployment platformsGitOps tooling (ArgoCD, Flux)
Nice to have:AI-assisted deployment workflows

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
Last updated Jul 16, 2026. Interested? Apply on the company site.

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