Software Engineer, Data Infrastructure

About This Role

Building and operating data infrastructure that supports massive compute fleets and storage systems is the focus of this role, designed for high performance and scalability. You will help design, build, and operate the next generation of data infrastructure, scaling and hardening big data compute and storage platforms, and enabling secure and governed data access for ML and analytics.

Responsibilities

• Design, build, and maintain data infrastructure systems such as distributed compute, data orchestration, distributed storage, streaming infrastructure, and machine learning infrastructure while ensuring scalability, reliability, and security
• Ensure the data platform can scale by orders of magnitude while remaining reliable and efficient
• Accelerate company productivity by empowering fellow engineers and teammates with excellent data tooling and systems
• Collaborate with product, research, and analytics teams to build the technical foundations capabilities that unlock new features and experiences
• Own the reliability of the systems you build, including participation in an on-call rotation for critical incidents

Requirements

• 4+ years in data infrastructure engineering or 4+ years in infrastructure engineering with a strong interest in data
• Pride in building and operating scalable, reliable, secure systems
• Comfortable with ambiguity and rapid change
• Intrinsic desire to learn and fill in missing skills
• Strong talent for sharing learnings clearly and concisely with others
• Supported Spark, Kafka, Flink, Airflow, Trino, or Iceberg as platforms
• Well-versed in infrastructure tooling like Terraform
• Experienced in debugging large-scale distributed systems
• Excited about solving data infrastructure problems in the AI space

Important Details

• Work format: hybrid work model of 3 days in the office per week

Relocation Assistance

• Relocation assistance to new employees

About the Company

OpenAI is an AI research and deployment company dedicated to ensuring that general-purpose artificial intelligence benefits all of humanity. It pushes the boundaries of the capabilities of AI systems and seeks to safely deploy them to the world through its products. OpenAI believes artificial intelligence has the potential to help people solve immense global challenges, and it wants the upside of AI to be widely shared.