OpenAI
Software Engineer, API Multicloud
$266K–$445K
San Francisco +1 · Hybrid · Full-time · Posted Jun 10, 2026
- Location
- San Francisco
Seattle - Experience
- 7+ years leading cloud infrastructure or distributed systems projects from architecture through launch and ongoing production ownership.
About the job
Designs, builds, and operates the cloud infrastructure and distributed services that run OpenAI’s API and model-serving environments across cloud service providers.
What you'll do
- Build API routing, cloud infrastructure, and model-serving deployments across CSP platforms.
- Manage capacity, performance, caching, and cost efficiency; create repeatable release and validation processes.
- Own production health through observability, incident diagnosis, reliability improvements, and automation.
What they ask for
- Strong distributed systems fundamentals and ability to reason about performance, reliability, and failure modes.
- Hands-on experience building and operating services on a major CSP, including deployment systems, networking, storage, and cloud-native integrations.
- Strong production coding and debugging skills.
- Experience with capacity planning, performance optimization, or operational tooling for production systems at scale.
Nice to have
- Experience deploying models.
- Curiosity about model serving and AI infrastructure.
Pay
$266K – $445K USD base salary
AI focus
Brings model-serving environments and new models into production; experience deploying models is a plus, while direct ML or model-training experience is not required.
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