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Software Engineer, Product Velocity

OpenAI · San Francisco

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Frontier labremote$347k–$445k
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At a glance

Highlights

  • Own the health of the end-to-end developer and deploy loop for ChatGPT.
  • Build agents that keep PRs moving with rebasing and CI triage.
  • Make deploy pipelines self-healing with clear, trustworthy blocking signals.

What they offer

  • Equity

Ideal candidate

Experienced infra engineer energized by high-leverage developer productivity work who treats engineers as users, turns messy workflow pain into measured automation, and balances velocity with production safety.

Requirements

  • Strong experience with large-scale developer infrastructure, build systems, CI/CD, deployment systems, or production reliability
  • Ability to debug across local machines, devboxes, remote caches, monorepos, service dependencies and distributed deploy pipelines
  • Comfortable with Bazel, Buildkite, Kubernetes, Temporal, Python/TypeScript services and GitHub workflows or equivalents
  • Think in product loops and care whether developers can understand and trust the workflow
  • Replace repeated manual intervention with policy-backed automation while preserving production safety
  • Communicate well across teams and turn ambiguous slow/broken/flaky reports into owners, metrics and shipped fixes

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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