OpenAI
Software Engineer, Habitat (Online Data)
$266K–$445K
Seattle · Full-time · Posted Apr 14, 2025
- Experience
- 8+ years of industry experience building production software, including 3+ years leading large-scale, complex projects or technical initiatives as a tech lead or senior IC.
About the job
Build and operate Habitat, OpenAI’s online database platform, improving distributed-systems performance, reliability, privacy, and developer experience at scale.
What you'll do
- Design core abstractions for storage, caching, routing, CDC, and privacy enforcement; own a major surface area end to end.
- Improve latency, correctness, and cost efficiency, and build instrumentation, debugging workflows, and developer tooling.
- Collaborate with internal teams, participate in on-call, and improve production reliability and usability.
What they ask for
- Proficiency in Rust and/or Python; Rust is preferred for core systems work.
- Strong track record building and operating high-scale backend or data-intensive distributed systems in production.
- Strong distributed-systems judgment and passion for reliability, scalability, security, and continuous improvement.
- Excellent communication skills to align stakeholders and drive decisions.
Nice to have
- Experience with databases, caching, routing and load balancing, indexing and retrieval, or CDC pipelines.
- Experience with tail latency and global performance optimization, platform APIs, or multi-region systems, consistency semantics, and failover design.
Pay
$266K – $445K USD base salary
Tools
Rust, Python
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