Software Engineer, Cloud Agents
OpenAI · San Francisco
CHECKED 23H AGO
Frontier labremotesenior$347k–$445k
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