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Software Engineer, Compute - Storage

OpenAI · San Francisco · Seattle · London, UK

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Frontier labremote$230k–$385k
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At a glance

Highlights

  • Build storage platform powering OpenAI research and production at scale.
  • Unify cloud and in-house object stores behind a federation layer.
  • Design cross-region data movement, replication and lifecycle systems.

What they offer

  • Equity

Ideal candidate

Infrastructure engineer who loves owning distributed systems end to end in production and partnering with researchers on evolving, data-intensive workloads at massive scale.

Requirements

  • Have experience building or operating distributed systems in production
  • Have worked on storage infrastructure, object stores, distributed filesystems, or other data-intensive backend systems
  • Enjoy owning infrastructure end to end, including debugging and long-term reliability improvements
  • Write strong production code, ideally in Rust or another systems-oriented language
  • Are comfortable working with Kubernetes-based systems
  • Have experience with tools such as Terraform, Grafana, or similar infrastructure and observability tooling

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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