Software Engineer, ChatGPT Infrastructure
OpenAI · London, UK
CHECKED 35M AGO
Frontier labonsite$257k–$371k
At a glance
Highlights
- Build backend systems powering high-traffic ChatGPT experiences at scale.
- Design shared services that help product teams launch safely at scale.
- Strengthen monitoring and diagnostics to keep critical systems reliable.
What they offer
- Equity
Ideal candidate
Backend engineer with 4+ years building scalable systems who loves complex distributed problems and owns code from design through production, motivated by linking infrastructure work to ChatGPT user experience.
Requirements
- 4+ years professional software engineering experience including backend or distributed systems
- Strong proficiency in at least one general-purpose programming language and reliable production code
- Experience designing, building or improving services, platforms or shared infrastructure at scale
- Familiarity with monitoring, incident response, root-cause analysis and operational readiness
- Experience diagnosing performance, scalability or reliability issues in production
- Understanding of distributed systems, storage, concurrency, async processing or networking
- Familiarity with modern deployment, observability and cloud infrastructure practices
- Ability to lead complex technical work and collaborate across product and infrastructure teams
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