OpenAI
Software Engineer, Traffic Infrastructure
$266K–$445K
San Francisco +1 · On-site · Full-time · Posted Oct 29, 2026
- Location
- San Francisco
Seattle - Experience
- 5+ years
About the job
Build and operate networking and traffic infrastructure that connects OpenAI products and services across clouds, regions, and service layers.
What you'll do
- Design and operate ingress, egress, and service-to-service connectivity; develop gateways, proxies, controllers, and traffic-management automation.
- Diagnose networking failures and performance bottlenecks, and build telemetry and diagnostic tools to support reliable operations.
- Improve security, latency, throughput, availability, and operational safety in partnership with service, infrastructure, and security teams.
What they ask for
- 5+ years building production infrastructure or distributed systems, including substantial networking or traffic-infrastructure work.
- Networking fundamentals, including IP routing, TCP/UDP, DNS, NAT, TLS, and HTTP/gRPC.
- Hands-on experience building or operating Envoy, NGINX, Istio, Cilium, or comparable networking infrastructure.
- Production software development in Go, Rust, C++, Python, or a similar language.
Pay
$266K – $445K (base salary)
Tools
Kubernetes, Envoy, NGINX, Istio, Cilium, Go, Rust, C++
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