Software Engineer, Data Infrastructure
OpenAI · San Francisco · New York City · Seattle · Mountain View
CHECKED 23H AGO
Frontier labonsite$266k–$445k
At a glance
Highlights
- Build exabyte-scale data platforms powering products and research.
- Redefine how people interact with data via AI-assisted workflows.
- Own core systems end-to-end from architecture to production operations.
What they offer
- Equity
- Relocation assistance
Ideal candidate
Infrastructure-minded builder with 4+ years of experience who takes pride in reliable, scalable systems, thrives amid ambiguity and rapid change, and loves learning fast while empowering fellow engineers.
Requirements
- 4+ years in data infrastructure engineering or infrastructure engineering with strong interest in data
- Experience building and operating scalable, reliable, secure distributed systems
- Experience with platforms such as Spark, Kafka, Flink, Airflow, Trino, or Iceberg
- Familiarity with infrastructure tooling such as Terraform and debugging large-scale distributed systems
- Full lifecycle ownership including architecture, operations, and on-call for critical incidents
- Comfortable with ambiguity and rapid change
- remote policy
- Hybrid - 3 days in office per week
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