OpenAI
Software Engineer, Infrastructure - Core Experimentation
$347K–$385K
Seattle · Full-time · Posted Mar 17, 2026
About the job
Build and scale the experimentation and rollout infrastructure OpenAI teams use to configure launches, ingest experiment data, analyze results, and safely ship product changes.
What you'll do
- Design and operate low-latency configuration delivery, SDK evaluation, and control-plane systems.
- Build and scale high-throughput data ingestion, analytics, and query infrastructure.
- Improve reliability, performance, observability, and operational practices; lead technical initiatives and shape platform architecture.
What they ask for
- Experience building large-scale distributed systems with strict performance, availability, and correctness requirements.
Nice to have
- Experience with low-latency systems, including configuration delivery, SDK/runtime performance, caching, concurrency, and high-throughput services.
- Experience building or operating data platforms, event pipelines, analytics systems, or query infrastructure.
Pay
$347K – $385K USD base salary
AI focus
Infrastructure supports experimentation, rollout, analytics, and measurement for OpenAI products and models; no direct AI development work is specified.
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