Software Engineer - Data Aquisition (systems)

OpenAI
San Francisco
Workplace: OnsiteFull timeUSD 255,000 - 405,000 annuallyFunction: Software EngineeringSkills: ["Independent","High-ownership","Execution mindset","Debugging","Collaboration","Curiosity","Pragmatism"]

Build and operate infrastructure that powers frontier research and research-facing systems. Work close to the metal—reasoning about networking, bootstrapping, Kubernetes, scalability, automation, and reliability—while also writing software to improve systems. You’ll support data infrastructure (processing, crawl/ingest, caching, search), observability, and cluster-wide services, debug failures across the stack, and help evolve toward scalable, maintainable patterns.

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OpenAI
OpenAI
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Software Engineer - Data Aquisition (systems)

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Job Summary

Build and operate infrastructure that powers frontier research and research-facing systems. Work close to the metal—reasoning about networking, bootstrapping, Kubernetes, scalability, automation, and reliability—while also writing software to improve systems. You’ll support data infrastructure (processing, crawl/ingest, caching, search), observability, and cluster-wide services, debug failures across the stack, and help evolve toward scalable, maintainable patterns.
Location: San Francisco
Workplace: Onsite
Employment Type: Full time
Job Function: Software Engineering

Key Responsibilities

  • •Build and operate reliable infrastructure for research workloads and research-facing services.
  • •Support and improve systems across data infrastructure, processing, crawl and ingest, caching, search, observability, and clusterwide services.
  • •Improve cluster bootstrapping, provisioning, automation, and deployment workflows.
  • •Debug issues across networking, compute, storage, orchestration, and service reliability layers.
  • •Partner with researchers, infrastructure engineers, and service owners to translate needs into durable solutions.

Pay and Benefits

Salary: USD 255,000 - 405,000 annually
Equity and Bonus:Equity

Key Requirements

  • •Have strong systems fundamentals and understand how infrastructure scales in practice.
  • •Be comfortable with Linux, networking, Kubernetes, provisioning, and distributed systems operations.
  • •Write software to automate, debug, and improve infrastructure systems.
  • •Debug complex, end-to-end systems across networking, compute, storage, orchestration, and service reliability layers.
  • •Demonstrate a strong execution mindset with independent ownership of ambiguous infrastructure work.
Experience:InfrastructureDistributed systemsReliabilityResearch toolingPlatform services
Skills:IndependentHigh-ownershipExecution mindsetDebuggingCollaborationCuriosityPragmatism
Tech Stack:LinuxNetworkingKubernetesPXE bootCI/CDObservabilityGitProvisioningDistributed systems

Company Brief

OpenAI
Develops and deploys advanced generative AI models (including ChatGPT and DALL·E) and AI infrastructure, providing APIs and consumer products to accelerate safe AGI for broad benefit.
Industry: AI & Machine Learning
Company Size: Enterprise (1,001+ employees)
Revenue: USD 1B+
Growth: Scaleup
Valuation: Hectocorn (USD 100B+)
Funding: Series E+
Headquarters: San Francisco, United States
Founded: 2015
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