OpenAI
Software Engineer, Cloud Agents
$347K–$445K
San Francisco · Hybrid · Full-time · Posted Jun 6, 2026
- Experience
- 9+ years of professional engineering experience, excluding internships, in relevant roles at technology and product-driven companies.
About the job
Build and scale the cloud platform that orchestrates long-running agents and supports OpenAI products and developers.
What you'll do
- Design and scale orchestration, sandboxing, and storage systems for agentic workloads.
- Partner with product engineers to build platform abstractions and enable rapid product development.
- Improve reliability, security, performance, and cost efficiency; deploy services across environments and clouds.
What they ask for
- Experience leading large-scale backend, platform, or infrastructure projects from ambiguous problems through production.
- Proficiency in one or more backend languages such as Python, Go, Rust, TypeScript, or similar.
- Strong understanding of distributed systems, cloud platforms, and production reliability.
Pay
$347K – $445K (base salary)
Tools
Python, Go, Rust, TypeScript
AI focus
Build infrastructure for cloud agents that use tools to accomplish goals, including orchestration, sandboxing, connectivity, and secure operation.
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