OpenAI
Software Engineer, Product Velocity
$347K–$445K
San Francisco · Hybrid · Full-time · Posted Sep 28, 2026
- Experience
- Strong experience in relevant infrastructure areas; no number of years stated.
About the job
Improve the speed, reliability, and safety of the end-to-end development and deployment workflow for ChatGPT engineers.
What you'll do
- Reduce local development, build, and CI latency while improving reliability and merge throughput.
- Build automation and self-healing deployment workflows that reduce manual intervention while preserving production safety.
- Improve deploy observability and measure the impact of workflow improvements.
What they ask for
- Strong experience with large-scale developer infrastructure, build systems, CI/CD, deployment systems, or production reliability.
- Ability to debug across local machines, devboxes, remote caches, monorepos, service dependencies, auth systems, and distributed deploy pipelines.
- Ability to replace repeated manual intervention with policy-backed automation while preserving production safety.
- Strong cross-team communication and ability to turn ambiguous workflow problems into owners, hypotheses, metrics, and shipped fixes.
Nice to have
- Experience improving developer experience in a very large monorepo.
- Experience with remote execution, remote caching, hermetic builds, or cache reproducibility.
Pay
$347K – $445K USD base salary
Tools
Bazel, Buildkite, Kubernetes, Temporal, Python/TypeScript, GitHub workflows
AI focus
Build agents to help pull requests progress through rebasing, conflict resolution, CI triage, safe reruns, and owner routing; agent-assisted developer workflow experience is also a nice-to-have.
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