Software Engineer, Data Infrastructure

OpenAI
San Francisco
Workplace: HybridFull timeUSD 185,000 - 385,000 annuallyFunction: Software EngineeringExperience: 4+ yearsSkills: ["Communication","Problem-solving"]

Join the Data Platform team to design, build, and operate scalable data infrastructure powering OpenAI’s product, research, and analytics. You’ll scale big data compute/storage, ship high-throughput streaming and low-latency ingestion pipelines, enable secure data access for ML and analytics, and own reliability through lifecycle management and on-call participation in a hybrid SF office setting.

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OpenAI
OpenAI
2 years ago

Software Engineer, Data Infrastructure

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Job Summary

Join the Data Platform team to design, build, and operate scalable data infrastructure powering OpenAI’s product, research, and analytics. You’ll scale big data compute/storage, ship high-throughput streaming and low-latency ingestion pipelines, enable secure data access for ML and analytics, and own reliability through lifecycle management and on-call participation in a hybrid SF office setting.
Location: San Francisco
Workplace: Hybrid
Employment Type: Full time
Job Function: Software Engineering

Key Responsibilities

  • •Design, build, and maintain data infrastructure systems such as distributed compute, data orchestration, distributed storage, streaming infrastructure, machine learning infrastructure while ensuring scalability, reliability, and security
  • •Ensure our data platform can scale by orders of magnitude while remaining reliable and efficient
  • •Accelerate company productivity by empowering your fellow engineers & teammates with excellent data tooling and systems
  • •Collaborate with product, research and analytics teams to build the technical foundations capabilities that unlock new features and experiences
  • •Own the reliability of the systems you build, including participation in an on-call rotation for critical incidents

Pay and Benefits

Salary: USD 185,000 - 385,000 annually
Equity and Bonus:Equity

Key Requirements

  • •4+ years in data infrastructure engineering or 4+ years in infrastructure engineering with a strong interest in data
  • •Experience supporting Spark, Kafka, Flink, Airflow, Trino, or Iceberg platforms
  • •Proficiency with infrastructure tooling like Terraform and debugging large-scale distributed systems
  • •Ability to design, build, and operate scalable, reliable, secure data infrastructure at scale
  • •Willingness to participate in on-call rotation and own system reliability
Experience:4+ yearsData infrastructureAI infrastructureDistributed systems
Skills:CommunicationProblem-solving
Tech Stack:SparkKafkaFlinkAirflowTrinoIcebergTerraformChronon

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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