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Software Engineer, Traffic Infrastructure

OpenAI · San Francisco · Seattle

Frontier labonsitesenior$266k–$445k
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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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