We’re looking for engineers with experience building large-scale backend systems or infrastructure who enjoy working close to products and users. You should be comfortable moving quickly through ambiguous problems while making thoughtful decisions about security, performance, and long-term maintainability.
This role is based in San Francisco, CA. We use a hybrid work model of 3 days in the office per week and offer relocation assistance to new employees.
In this role, you will
Build and operate production services that enable agents to execute code, use tools, and interact with external systems.
Design APIs and platform abstractions that make it easier for product teams to build and launch agentic experiences.
Develop orchestration systems that manage agent execution, state, resource allocation, retries, and recovery.
Improve platform reliability, latency, and efficiency through performance optimization, observability, and capacity planning.
Partner with product, research, security, and infrastructure teams to bring new agent capabilities into production.
Own systems through their full lifecycle, from design and implementation to rollout, monitoring, and ongoing operation.
You might thrive in this role if you
Have experience building and operating large-scale backend services, distributed systems, or cloud infrastructure.
Enjoy building shared platforms and APIs that help other engineers move faster.
Can take an early prototype, turn it into a reliable service, and evolve it as usage grows.
Have a strong understanding of system performance, concurrency, failure modes, and resource management.
Care about how infrastructure decisions affect the user experience, including responsiveness, reliability, and predictable behavior.
Are comfortable working across service boundaries and collaborating with teams to solve problems from end to end.
Have experience with cloud platforms, containers, orchestration systems, or infrastructure-as-code tools such as Terraform.
Are interested in secure execution environments, sandboxing, and the challenges of running agent workloads in production.
About OpenAI
OpenAI is an AI research and deployment company dedicated to ensuring that general-purpose artificial intelligence benefits all of humanity. We push the boundaries of the capabilities of AI systems and seek to safely deploy them to the world through our products. AI is an extremely powerful tool that must be created with safety and human needs at its core, and to achieve our mission, we must encompass and value the many different perspectives, voices, and experiences that form the full spectrum of humanity.
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