OpenAI
Software Engineer, Observability
$266K–$445K
San Francisco +2 · Full-time · Posted Feb 19, 2026
- Location
- San Francisco
New York City
Mountain View
About the job
Build and operate OpenAI’s observability infrastructure and AI-powered tools that help engineers monitor, debug, and improve production systems.
What you'll do
- Own distributed logging, time-series, and trace-storage infrastructure.
- Build AI-native tools to detect, understand, and resolve issues, and contribute to dashboards, notebooking, or interactive debugging experiences.
- Collaborate with engineering, research, user operations, and other teams to develop the observability product.
What they ask for
- Experience operating large-scale distributed systems in production.
- Strong fundamentals in systems, networking, and cloud infrastructure.
- Ability to work through ambiguity and solve unscoped problems.
Nice to have
- Full-stack skills or product sensibilities.
- Experience building or contributing to observability systems such as Prometheus or OpenTelemetry.
Pay
$266K – $445K (base salary)
Tools
Kubernetes, AWS, Prometheus, OpenTelemetry
AI focus
Build AI-native observability tools, including agents that summarize SEVs, generate dashboards, and assist engineers with debugging.
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