Software Engineer, Database Systems
OpenAI · San Francisco · Mountain View
CHECKED 23H AGO
Frontier labonsitesenior$266k–$445k
At a glance
Highlights
- Build the core database engine powering vector search and RAG at OpenAI.
- Scale online database reliability and throughput by orders of magnitude.
- Drive improvements across ingestion, indexing, query execution and storage.
What they offer
- Equity
Ideal candidate
Distributed systems engineer who loves deep performance work and database internals. Thrives with high autonomy in fast-paced settings and cares about scalability, correctness, and reliability.
Requirements
- 4+ years relevant industry experience with 2+ years leading large-scale complex projects
- Experience building, scaling and optimizing distributed systems for performance and reliability
- Curiosity about database internals, storage engines or low-latency query systems
- Experience operating production clusters at scale, e.g. Kubernetes
- Fluency in cloud environments and IaC tools like Terraform
- Experience with Linux systems, CI/CD pipelines and observability stacks
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