Software Engineer, Infrastructure - Analytics Platform

About this role

OpenAI seeks a systems-focused software engineer to design and operate production-critical infrastructure supporting AI research. You'll own backend systems end-to-end in Rust or C++, focusing on performance, scalability, and distributed systems while partnering with researchers.

What you'll do

• Own critical infrastructure across design, implementation, deployment, and iteration
• Build performant backend systems in Rust or C++ for research workflows
• Design and optimize distributed data and serving systems with focus on consistency, replication, and failure isolation
• Debug production bottlenecks in latency, throughput, and overload behavior
• Operate business-critical services through on-call, incidents, and safe rollouts
• Improve reliability of Kubernetes-hosted services and coordinate with researchers on system delivery

What they're looking for

• Rust or C++ systems programming
• Distributed systems design and operation
• Performance optimization and profiling
• Kubernetes and container orchestration
• Infrastructure-as-code tools (Terraform or equivalent)
• Observability and monitoring (Prometheus or similar)
• Low-level system knowledge (concurrency, async, memory, networking, I/O)
• Analytics infrastructure experience (ClickHouse-like systems preferred)

Benefits

• Hybrid work model (3 days per week in San Francisco office)
• Relocation assistance provided