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Software Engineer, Astral

New York City (Remote)$250k–$400kfulltimemidAdded today

About this role

Astral seeks an experienced software engineer to design and maintain high-performance developer tools in Rust and Python, including projects like Ruff and uv that power the Python ecosystem. You'll contribute to open source projects, support community maintainance, and build next-generation tooling to accelerate development velocity at OpenAI.

What you'll do

  • Design and implement features in open source projects (Ruff, uv, ty, python-build-standalone)
  • Maintain open source projects by triaging issues, reviewing pull requests, and engaging with community
  • Evolve the Astral toolchain to improve development workflows at OpenAI
  • Build new tools across different programming ecosystems for agentic software development
  • Ensure security, reliability, and operational excellence in tooling systems
  • Lead complex projects from problem definition through user impact

What they're looking for

  • Rust or other system programming languages
  • Python ecosystem knowledge
  • Compiler design or developer tools experience
  • Open source project maintenance and community engagement
  • Systems engineering and performance optimization
  • Problem-solving in ambiguous environments
  • Developer empathy and technical communication
  • High agency and ownership mindset
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OpenAI

OpenAI builds AI infrastructure and products, including large-scale data center campuses for AI computing and generative AI applications for enterprise customers. The company is hiring civil engineers, project engineers, electrical design engineers, data center R&D engineers, and AI deployment engineers to expand its infrastructure capabilities and help customers deploy AI solutions.

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Likely interview questions

  • Describe your experience with Rust and how you've applied it to performance-critical systems.
  • Tell us about an open source project you've maintained and how you handled community contributions and issues.
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