Software Engineer, Caching Infrastructure
OpenAI · San Francisco
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Frontier labonsitesenior$230k–$385k
At a glance
Highlights
- Design and scale high-availability caching layer for ChatGPT and APIs.
- Define long-term vision for caching balancing performance, durability and cost.
- Power critical inference workloads with auto-scaling, low-latency cache platform.
What they offer
- Equity
Ideal candidate
An experienced distributed systems builder who obsesses over latency, reliability and cost efficiency and thrives in fast-paced settings balancing pragmatic delivery with long-term technical excellence.
Requirements
- 5+ years building and scaling distributed systems focused on caching, load balancing, or storage
- Deep expertise with Redis, Memcached or similar including clustering and performance tuning
- Production experience with Kubernetes, service meshes and autoscaling systems
- Rigorously consider latency, reliability, throughput and cost in platform design
- Thrive in fast-paced environments balancing pragmatic engineering with long-term excellence
Lab profile
About OpenAI
Builds safe frontier AI models and products like ChatGPT for broad benefit.
What they build
- ChatGPT
- OpenAI API
- Frontier AI models
Known for
- Frontier-scale distributed ML training
- Massive GPU fleet and data center operations
- Exabyte-scale data lakes and streaming
- AI alignment and safety research
Key facts
- Operates one of the world's largest GPU fleets