Software Engineer, Infrastructure, Consumer Devices

About this role

OpenAI seeks an experienced Cloud Infrastructure Engineer to design and operate scalable platforms powering their consumer products. This hands-on technical leader role combines infrastructure architecture with strategic influence across teams, requiring deep expertise in cloud systems and proven ability to manage large-scale distributed infrastructure.

What you'll do

• Design and build scalable, reliable, secure infrastructure platforms for OpenAI products
• Evolve cloud abstractions to enable rapid product development across multiple teams
• Architect systems supporting significant growth, performance, and operational complexity
• Improve server orchestration, networking, reliability, and infrastructure security
• Participate in on-call rotations, incident response, and production readiness
• Mentor engineers and influence technical direction across the organization

What they're looking for

• 8+ years large-scale infrastructure systems experience
• Deep Kubernetes and container orchestration expertise
• Cloud platform design (AWS, GCP, Azure, or similar)
• Distributed systems reliability and security
• Security engineering background preferred
• Systems thinking and technical leadership
• Cross-team collaboration and mentoring
• Operating in ambiguous, fast-moving environments