OpenAI
Network Engineer
$347K–$510K
San Francisco · Hybrid · Full-time · Posted Aug 14, 2026
About the job
Designs, operates, and improves secure, reliable enterprise networks connecting OpenAI’s offices, labs, campuses, cloud environments, and users.
What you'll do
- Design and operate network services, setting architecture, standards, roadmaps, and lifecycle plans.
- Handle production operations, including on-call, incidents, escalations, network changes, and site launches.
- Use telemetry and incident learning to improve reliability through observability, automation, and safer operating standards.
What they ask for
- Hands-on experience designing and operating enterprise networks using platforms such as Cisco IOS, Cisco Meraki, Palo Alto, or Arista, or equivalent technologies.
- Strong routing and switching fundamentals, including BGP, OSPF, VLAN/VRF design, WAN, Internet edge, and high availability.
- Production troubleshooting experience across packets, logs, telemetry, configurations, circuits, and physical infrastructure.
- Network security fundamentals and ability to automate infrastructure using a modern programming language and tools such as Python, Go, Terraform, or Ansible.
Nice to have
- Experience shaping a multi-quarter network roadmap while supporting production operations.
- Experience with optical transport and carrier services, cloud and virtual WAN architectures, campus/data center/PoP architecture, or AI-assisted automation.
Pay
$347K – $510K USD base salary
Tools
Cisco IOS, Cisco Meraki, Palo Alto, Arista, BGP, OSPF, Python, Terraform
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