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Software Engineer, Cloud Agents

OpenAI · San Francisco

CHECKED 23H AGO

Frontier labremotesenior$347k–$445k
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At a glance

Highlights

  • Build orchestration and sandboxing for long-running cloud agents at scale.
  • Power agentic workloads behind Codex, ChatGPT, and the OpenAI API.
  • Improve reliability, security, and efficiency for long-running agents.

What they offer

  • Offers Equity

Ideal candidate

Experienced platform-minded engineer who loves turning ambiguous ideas into dependable production systems and making complex infrastructure feel simple for product teams. You thrive in fast-moving environments while caring deeply about security and reliability.

Requirements

  • 9+ years of professional engineering experience, excluding internships, in relevant roles at technology and product-driven companies.
  • Experience leading large-scale backend, platform, or infrastructure projects from ambiguous problem statements to production systems.
  • Proficiency in one or more backend languages such as Python, Go, Rust, TypeScript, or similar, and the ability to move across service, platform, and product boundaries.
  • Strong understanding of distributed systems, cloud platforms, and production reliability.
  • Enjoy abstracting away complex infrastructure and building platforms for product engineers to move faster.
  • Care about building platforms for other engineers and developers, and enjoy working closely with users to make complex infrastructure feel simple.
  • Comfort with a fast-moving pace while caring for security and operational 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
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