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Software Engineer, Observability

OpenAI · San Francisco · New York City · Mountain View

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Frontier labonsite$266k–$445k
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At a glance

Highlights

  • Build observability product from scalable infrastructure to AI-powered UI.
  • Systems ingest petabytes of logs and billions of time series metrics.
  • Build AI-native tools that help detect and resolve issues autonomously.

What they offer

  • Equity

Ideal candidate

A systems-minded builder who thrives in ambiguity and loves shipping tools engineers rely on daily. You care about reliability at massive scale and defining AI-powered observability.

Requirements

  • Operated large-scale distributed systems in production, especially logging or time series systems
  • Thrive in ambiguous environments and solve unscoped problems
  • Full-stack chops and product sensibilities building real tools people use
  • Strong fundamentals in systems, networking, and cloud infra
  • Bonus: built or contributed to observability systems

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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