Software Engineer, Traffic Infrastructure
OpenAI · San Francisco · Seattle
Frontier labonsitesenior$266k–$445k
At a glance
Highlights
- Build ingress, egress and service-to-service connectivity across clouds and regions.
- Improve cross-region connectivity, latency and availability through careful rollouts.
- Build telemetry and diagnostic tools that explain traffic paths and failures.
What they offer
- Offers Equity
Ideal candidate
Production infrastructure engineer who takes ownership from design through on-call and turns ambiguous networking problems into durable improvements. Curious across layers and cares about secure, understandable systems.
Requirements
- 5+ years building production infrastructure or distributed systems including networking or traffic infrastructure
- Depth in cloud networking, Kubernetes networking, proxies and gateways, service meshes, load balancing or global routing
- Strong networking fundamentals across IP routing, TCP/UDP, DNS, NAT, TLS and HTTP/gRPC
- Hands-on experience building or operating Envoy, NGINX, Istio, Cilium or comparable networking infrastructure
- Write production software in Go, Rust, C++, Python or similar and use automation to solve operational problems
- Investigate unfamiliar failures with evidence, test hypotheses and drive to verified resolution
- Own design, implementation, rollout and reliability and communicate clearly across ownership boundaries
- Care about making infrastructure secure and understandable for engineers
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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