Software Engineer, ChatGPT Infrastructure
On-site · San Francisco, California, United States
San Francisco, California, United StatesOn-siteFull TimeMid LevelNot SpecifiedAI ServicesLarge
Type
Full Time
Level
Mid Level
Education
Not Specified
Company size
Large
Industry
AI Services
Job Summary
The ChatGPT Infrastructure team at OpenAI is looking for Senior and Staff Software Engineers to build and operate platforms for fast iteration of ChatGPT. Responsibilities include designing core abstractions, improving performance, and ensuring scalability and reliability of systems integral to the product. Candidates should have experience in distributed systems, systems design, and collaboration with product teams.
Required Qualifications
- Experience building and operating large-scale distributed systems in production (high throughput, concurrency, and failure handling).
- Strong fundamentals in systems design, including caching, consistency, queueing/backpressure, and resilient dependency management.
- Ability to reason about performance (latency distributions, tail behavior, bottlenecks) and translate analysis into concrete engineering work.
- Track record of building platforms or shared infrastructure that improves velocity and correctness for other teams.
- Excellent communication and collaboration skills—aligning on interfaces, navigating tradeoffs, and driving cross-team execution.
Desired Qualifications
- Experience designing paved roads / golden paths (frameworks, libraries, self-serve tooling) that shape engineering behavior at scale.
- Deep understanding of reliability techniques: graceful degradation, circuit breakers, load shedding, rate limiting, and fault isolation.
- Experience building systems for safe iteration: progressive delivery, correctness checks, automated rollout gates, and production validation.
- Strong instincts for API and contract design—how to create interfaces that are stable, evolvable, and hard to misuse.
- Prior work that demonstrates “force multiplier” impact: enabling many teams via a small set of well-crafted primitives.
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