Drimva

OpenAI

Software Engineer, Developer Productivity

$210K–$490K

San Francisco +3 · Full-time · Posted Mar 27, 2025

Location
San Francisco
New York City
Seattle
Mountain View
Experience
5+ years in engineering, including 3+ years in infrastructure building tooling for developers.

About the job

Builds and maintains engineering tools and infrastructure that improve developer productivity and support teams building ChatGPT and the API.

What you'll do

  • Design and implement tools, systems, and processes that accelerate engineering and improve output quality.
  • Work with teams to understand workflows and provide tools and technical foundations for product engineering.
  • Advise teams on observable, scalable systems and participate in an on-call rotation.

What they ask for

  • At least 5 years of engineering experience, including at least 3 years building developer infrastructure tooling.
  • Experience understanding tools and processes that slow engineering teams or create toil and burnout.

Nice to have

Pay

$210K – $490K USD base salary

Tools

Terraform, Buildkite, Postgres, Cosmos DB, Kafka, Python, FastAPI, Kubernetes

AI focus

Use the latest AI tools to rethink and improve engineering-team productivity.

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