Software Engineer, Productivity - Networking

About this role

OpenAI is seeking a Software Engineer focused on Developer Productivity for their networking teams. You'll enhance the development experience for engineers building high-performance networking infrastructure by improving build systems, testing frameworks, CI/CD pipelines, and deployment workflows.

What you'll do

• Optimize development workflows and iteration speed for networking infrastructure teams
• Design and enhance continuous deployment, release, and validation pipelines
• Build and maintain test harnesses for multi-server and hardware-backed environments
• Partner with engineers to identify and resolve friction in CI, testing, debugging, and deployment
• Drive testing and reliability strategy for large-scale training and inference infrastructure
• Work across centralized developer experience teams while embedded with networking engineers

What they're looking for

• CI/CD pipeline design and implementation
• Build systems (CMake, Bazel, or Blaze)
• C++ and Python programming
• Test infrastructure and automation
• Release pipeline management
• Systems debugging and troubleshooting
• Infrastructure systems understanding
• Self-direction in ambiguous environments