Software Engineer, Compute - Storage

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Responsibilities

• ▹Build and operate storage services underpinning OpenAI's research infrastructure
• ▹Develop object storage systems across cloud and in-house environments
• ▹Build systems for cross-region data movement, replication, and recovery
• ▹Design lifecycle management capabilities that keep data durable, available, and cost-effective
• ▹Evolve the federation layer that unifies multiple storage backends behind a single interface
• ▹Improve performance, reliability, and operational excellence across the platform
• ▹Collaborate closely with researchers and infrastructure teams to support rapidly evolving workloads

Requirements

• ▹Experience building or operating distributed systems in production
• ▹Experience with storage infrastructure, object stores, distributed filesystems, or other data-intensive backend systems
• ▹Ability to write strong production code, ideally in Rust or another systems-oriented language
• ▹Comfort working with Kubernetes-based systems
• ▹Experience with infrastructure and observability tooling such as Terraform or Grafana

Soft skills

About the company

OpenAI is an AI research and deployment company whose mission is to ensure that general-purpose artificial intelligence benefits all of humanity. The company continually pushes the boundaries of AI capabilities and works to safely deploy them to the world through its products, while placing safety and human needs at the core of its work and striving to reflect the full spectrum of human perspectives and experience.