OpenAI
Software Engineer, Infrastructure - Analytics Platform
$266K–$445K
San Francisco · Hybrid · Full-time · Posted Apr 11, 2026
About the job
Own and operate infrastructure that ingests, stores, queries, and visualizes research analytics and data so researchers can understand model quality and behavior.
What you'll do
- Own critical systems end to end, from architecture and implementation through integrations, deployment, monitoring, and adoption.
- Design and operate ingestion, storage, retrieval, and query systems for metrics and other research data.
- Work with researchers to identify recurring needs and build reusable platform components, APIs, and workflows.
What they ask for
- Experience owning a critical distributed system or research platform from an ambiguous problem through reliable production adoption.
- Experience with a high-performing programming language, such as Rust or C++, including performance and concurrency topics.
- Deep expertise in at least one relevant area, such as distributed databases, storage engines, analytics systems, telemetry, logging, search, ingestion, or query execution.
- Strong computer science fundamentals and algorithmic reasoning.
Nice to have
- Experience with ClickHouse or similar OLAP, columnar, time-series, or high-throughput analytical systems.
- Regular use of coding agents and informed views on how AI tools affect software development, product interfaces, and engineering leverage.
Pay
$266K – $445K USD base salary
Tools
Rust, C++, ClickHouse
AI focus
Build analytics platforms and increasingly agent-driven workflows for researchers analyzing model metrics, samples, traces, evaluations, and behavior; the role also calls for regular coding-agent use.
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