OpenAI
Software Engineer, Cloud Infrastructure
$230K–$490K
San Francisco · Full-time · Posted Aug 4, 2025
- Experience
- At least five years building core infrastructure.
About the job
Build and operate shared multi-cloud Kubernetes infrastructure and tooling that enables internal teams to provision, manage, and scale compute reliably.
What you'll do
- Build systems for Kubernetes cluster creation, lifecycle management, safe upgrades, and maintenance.
- Develop reusable platform tooling and automation for capacity management, autoscaling, resource allocation, security, patching, and compliance.
- Own production reliability, including on-call incident response and improvements based on operational lessons.
What they ask for
- At least five years of experience building core infrastructure.
- Strong software engineering skills and experience building shared cloud or cluster platforms; Kubernetes experience is especially relevant.
- Experience with infrastructure problems such as cluster lifecycle, automation, capacity, autoscaling, tenancy, or safe production changes.
- Ability to design, implement, and operate production systems, including work amid ambiguity and changing priorities.
Nice to have
- Infrastructure as code and repeatable cluster provisioning, including Terraform or comparable tooling.
- Production Kubernetes operations or shared platforms spanning multiple clusters or cloud providers.
Pay
$230K – $490K USD base salary
Tools
Kubernetes, OCI, AWS, Azure, Terraform
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