OpenAI
Software Engineer, Product Infrastructure - Agent Runtime
$266K–$445K
San Francisco · Hybrid · Full-time · Posted Aug 17, 2026
- Experience
- 7+ years of professional software engineering experience.
About the job
Builds and operates shared backend services, APIs, and runtime infrastructure that enable persistent, reliable, and scalable agent workflows across products.
What you'll do
- Design, build, and operate backend services, APIs, and reusable runtime primitives for agent experiences.
- Develop infrastructure for persistent agent state, asynchronous execution, orchestration, tool connections, and progress reporting.
- Improve reliability, scalability, and performance, and partner with Product, Research, and engineering teams to deliver reusable capabilities.
What they ask for
- Substantial ownership of backend systems, product infrastructure, or developer platforms.
- Track record designing, shipping, and operating production services, APIs, and data models.
- Strong distributed systems fundamentals, including state, concurrency, asynchronous work, and failure recovery.
- Production software development experience in Python, Go, Rust, TypeScript, or similar languages.
Nice to have
- Experience with agent runtimes, workflow orchestration, or execution environments.
- Interest in AI agents and how they execute real work.
Pay
$266K – $445K USD base salary
Tools
Python, Go, Rust, TypeScript
AI focus
Builds runtime and product infrastructure for AI agents, including persistent state, tool use, asynchronous execution, orchestration, and reliable work across execution environments.
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