OpenAI
Software Engineer, Core Services
$230K–$385K
San Francisco · Full-time · Posted Jul 18, 2025
About the job
Designs and operates reliable, scalable backend infrastructure services that support product teams and customer-facing applications.
What you'll do
- Build and maintain shared services for caching, workflow orchestration, metadata storage, and file storage.
- Collaborate with product teams to provide scalable, reliable abstractions for distributed systems.
- Improve the performance, resilience, and scalability of core services.
What they ask for
- Experience with distributed systems and relevant infrastructure such as caching, metadata storage, or workflow orchestration.
- Experience running containerized services in cloud environments and integrating them into CI/CD workflows.
- Understanding of consistency models, replication strategies, and performance optimization in multi-region systems.
Pay
$230K – $385K USD base salary
Tools
Temporal, Redis, Memcached, FoundationDB, Cadence
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