OpenAI
Software Engineer, Caching Infrastructure
$230K–$385K
San Francisco · Full-time · Posted Jul 18, 2025
- Experience
- 5+ years building and scaling distributed systems.
About the job
Designs, builds, and operates OpenAI’s multi-tenant caching platform for infrastructure and product use cases.
What you'll do
- Build and operate the caching platform used across inference, identity, quota, and product experiences.
- Define the platform’s long-term vision and roadmap, balancing performance, durability, and cost.
- Collaborate with infrastructure and product teams to meet platform needs.
What they ask for
- Deep expertise with Redis, Memcached, or similar caching solutions, including clustering, durability, client connection patterns, and performance tuning.
- Production experience with Kubernetes, service meshes, and autoscaling systems.
- Strong focus on caching, load balancing, or storage systems in distributed systems engineering.
Pay
$230K – $385K USD base salary
Tools
Redis, Memcached, Kubernetes, Envoy
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