Software Engineer, Habitat (Online Data)

OpenAI
Seattle
Workplace: OnsiteFull timeUSD 230,000 - 385,000 annuallyFunction: Software EngineeringExperience: 4+ yearsSkills: ["Communication","Collaboration","Problem-solving","Ownership","On-call reliability"]

Join the OpenAI Online Storage team to design and build a large-scale, highly scalable, reliable database and intuitive APIs. You’ll work on distributed systems powering ChatGPT, Sora, and OpenAI APIs, collaborating with product teams to meet high-scale production needs, while owning reliability, performance, and on-call incident response.

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1 year ago

Software Engineer, Habitat (Online Data)

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Job Summary

Join the OpenAI Online Storage team to design and build a large-scale, highly scalable, reliable database and intuitive APIs. You’ll work on distributed systems powering ChatGPT, Sora, and OpenAI APIs, collaborating with product teams to meet high-scale production needs, while owning reliability, performance, and on-call incident response.
Location: Seattle
Workplace: Onsite
Employment Type: Full time
Job Function: Software Engineering

Key Responsibilities

  • •Design and build highly scalable, reliable, and performant database
  • •Design and build highly simple and intuitive APIs for the underlying database
  • •Analyze and resolve performance and scalability bottlenecks to improve overall system efficiency
  • •Debug, instrument, and fix system issues — from pinpointing root causes to delivering long-term solutions
  • •Define technical strategy and guide the development of robust infrastructure that supports high-scale production systems and evolving business needs

Pay and Benefits

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

Key Requirements

  • •4+ years of industry experience, including 2+ years leading large-scale, complex projects or technical initiatives as an engineer or tech lead
  • •Strong passion for building distributed systems at scale, with a focus on reliability, scalability, security, and continuous improvement
  • •Expertise in systems programming, with hands-on experience in multi-threading and concurrency; proficiency in C++ and/or Python is highly preferred
  • •Preferably, domain experience in areas such as databases, large-scale data systems, storage, caching, search, or other core components of distributed infrastructure
  • •Excellent communication skills, with the ability to build consensus across diverse technical and non-technical stakeholders
Experience:4+ yearsDistributed systemsDatabasesStorageBackend infrastructure
Skills:CommunicationCollaborationProblem-solvingOwnershipOn-call reliability
Languages:English
Tech Stack:C++PythonDistributed systemsDatabasesCachingSearch

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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Glassdoor: 4.4
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