Software Engineer, Database Systems

OpenAI
San Francisco
Workplace: OnsiteFull timeUSD 230,000 - 385,000 annuallyFunction: Software EngineeringExperience: 4+ yearsSkills: ["C++","Kubernetes","Terraform","Prometheus","Grafana","AWS","GCP","Azure","Linux","CI/CD"]

Engineer high-performance distributed database systems at OpenAI, contribute to core engine in C++, optimize ingestion, queries, indexing, and storage, and collaborate with product, engineering, and research teams to scale reliability and throughput across OpenAI’s product lines.

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OpenAI
OpenAI
1 year ago

Software Engineer, Database Systems

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Job Summary

Engineer high-performance distributed database systems at OpenAI, contribute to core engine in C++, optimize ingestion, queries, indexing, and storage, and collaborate with product, engineering, and research teams to scale reliability and throughput across OpenAI’s product lines.
Location: San Francisco
Workplace: Onsite
Employment Type: Full time
Job Function: Software Engineering

Key Responsibilities

  • •Design, build, and operate high-performance distributed systems
  • •Identify and resolve performance bottlenecks to scale infrastructure to the next order of magnitude
  • •Define long-term technical direction and guide system evolution
  • •Collaborate with product, engineering, and research teams to deliver scalable and reliable infrastructure
  • •Dig deep into complex production issues across the stack
  • •Contribute to incident response, postmortems, and best practices for system reliability

Pay and Benefits

Salary: USD 230,000 - 385,000 annually
Equity and Bonus:Equity

Key Requirements

  • •4+ years of relevant industry experience, with 2+ years leading large scale, complex projects or teams as an engineer or tech lead
  • •Experience with distributed systems at scale, with a strong focus on performance, reliability, and scalability
  • •Strong communication skills and ability to collaborate across highly technical and cross-functional teams
  • •Proficiency in a systems programming language such as C++ (our core engine is written in C++) is strongly preferred
  • •Fluency in cloud environments (AWS, GCP, Azure) and IaC tools (Terraform or similar)
Experience:4+ yearsDistributed systemsScalabilityHigh-performanceCloud environments
Skills:C++KubernetesTerraformPrometheusGrafanaAWSGCPAzureLinuxCI/CD
Languages:English
Tech Stack:C++KubernetesTerraformPrometheusGrafanaAWSGCPAzureLinuxCI/CD

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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