Software Engineer, Product Velocity
OpenAI · San Francisco
CHECKED 1H AGO
Frontier labremote$347k–$445k
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