OpenAI· Applied AI Infrastructure· San Francisco
Software Engineer, Cloud Infrastructure
Comp$230K – $490K
Classified Tasks (12)
Automate 0%Augment 83%Human-Only 17%
Augment (10)
AI assists, human decides
Build and maintain infrastructure abstractions to enable rapid, scalable product shipping
technical
Run and operate core infrastructure that supports products like ChatGPT and the API
operational
Operate and maintain Kubernetes clusters at scale
operational
Implement and manage infrastructure deployment systems
technical
Design and build development and production platforms that provide reliability and security at scale
technical
Scale infrastructure to support the next order of magnitude in capacity
technical
Operate and maintain networking stack and related network infrastructure
operational
Implement and maintain cloud platform abstractions across cloud providers
technical
Analyze deployment outcomes and production behavior and incorporate learnings into system improvements
analytical
Own reliability responsibilities for systems you build, including performing reliability engineering activities
operational
Human-Only (2)
Requires human judgment
Participate in an on-call rotation and respond to critical incidents as needed
operational
Collaborate with research, engineering, product, and design teams to deliver technology to consumers and businesses
communication
Job description
Software Engineer, Cloud Infrastructure | OpenAI Careers ## Software Engineer, Cloud Infrastructure Applied AI Infrastructure - San Francisco Apply now(opens in a new window) **About the Team** The Applied Engineering team works across research, engineering, product, and design to bring OpenAI’s technology to consumers and businesses. You’ll join the team responsible for running the core infrastructure that supports products like ChatGPT and the API. The systems we support include our kubernetes clusters, infrastructure deployment, our networking stack, cloud abstractions, and more. We seek to learn from deployment and distribute the benefits of AI, while ensuring that this powerful tool is used responsibly and safely. Safety is more important to us than unfettered growth. **About the Role** The cloud infrastructure team builds and maintains infrastructure abstractions allowing OpenAI to ship products quickly and scalably. This role is based in San Francisco, CA. **In this role, you will:** * 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. **You might thrive in this role if you:** * 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 This role is exclusively based in our San Francisco HQ. We offer relocation assistance to new employees. **About OpenAI** OpenAI is an AI research and deployment company dedicated to ensuring that general-purpose artificial intelligence benefits all of humanity. We push the boundaries of the capabilities of AI systems and seek to safely deploy them to the world through our products. AI is an extremely powerful tool that must be created with safety and human needs at its core, and to achieve our mission, we must encompass and value the many different perspectives, voices, and experiences that form the full spectrum of humanity. We are an equal opportunity employer, and we do not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, color, national origin, sex, sexual orientation, age, veteran status, disability, genetic information, or other applicable legally protected characteristic. For additional information, please see OpenAI’s Affirmative Action and Equal Employment Opportunity Policy Statement. Background checks for applicants will be administered in accordance with applicable law, and qualified applicants with arrest or conviction records will be considered for employment consistent with those laws, including the San Francisco Fair Chance Ordinance, the Los Angeles County Fair Chance Ordinance for Employers, and the California Fair Chance Act, for US-based candidates. For unincorporated Los Angeles County workers: we reasonably believe that criminal history may have a direct, adverse and negative relationship with the following job duties, potentially resulting in the withdrawal of a conditional offer of employment: protect computer hardware entrusted to you from theft, loss or damage; return all computer hardware in your possession (including the data contained therein) upon termination of employment or end of assignment; and maintain the confidentiality of proprietary, confidential, and non-public information. In addition, job duties require access to secure and protected information technology systems and related data secur