Drimva

OpenAI

Software Engineer, Data Infrastructure

$266K–$445K

San Francisco +3 · Full-time · Posted Jun 27, 2024

Location
San Francisco
New York City
Seattle
Mountain View
Experience
4+ years in data infrastructure engineering OR 4+ years in infrastructure engineering with a strong interest in data.

About the job

Build and operate scalable data infrastructure—including compute, storage, streaming, and ingestion platforms—for OpenAI’s product, research, and analytics workflows.

What you'll do

  • Design, build, and maintain data infrastructure with a focus on scalability, reliability, and security.
  • Scale and operate compute, storage, streaming, and low-latency data ingestion systems.
  • Own production reliability, including on-call participation, and provide data tools for engineering, product, research, and analytics teams.

What they ask for

  • Experience supporting data infrastructure platforms such as Spark, Kafka, Flink, Airflow, Trino, or Iceberg.
  • Infrastructure tooling experience, including Terraform.
  • Experience debugging large-scale distributed systems.
  • Ability to build and operate scalable, reliable, and secure systems.

Pay

$266K – $445K USD base salary

Tools

Spark, Kafka, Flink, Airflow, Trino, Iceberg, Terraform, Chronon

AI focus

Build data infrastructure for AI-related workflows, including machine learning infrastructure and tooling for AI-assisted data workflows.

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