Drimva

OpenAI

Software Engineer, Compute - Storage

$230K–$385K

San Francisco +2 · Hybrid · Full-time · Posted Dec 10, 2024

Location
San Francisco
Seattle
London, UK

About the job

Build and operate storage infrastructure for OpenAI’s research and production systems, spanning object storage, data movement, lifecycle management, and a unified federation layer.

What you'll do

  • Build and operate storage services and object storage systems across cloud and in-house environments.
  • Develop cross-region data movement, replication, recovery, and data lifecycle capabilities.
  • Improve platform performance, reliability, and operations; collaborate with research and infrastructure teams.

What they ask for

  • Experience building or operating distributed systems in production.
  • Strong production coding skills; Rust or another systems-oriented language is ideal.
  • Comfort working with Kubernetes-based systems.

Nice to have

  • Experience with storage infrastructure, object stores, distributed filesystems, or other data-intensive backend systems.
  • Experience with Terraform, Grafana, or similar infrastructure and observability tooling.

Pay

$230K – $385K USD base salary

Tools

Rust, Kubernetes, Terraform, Grafana

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