Software Engineer, Cloud Infrastructure

The role

You will build infrastructure abstractions to help teams ship and scale products. This role involves designing, implementing, and owning production systems for the multi-cloud compute platform.

What you will do

• Build and improve systems that manage Kubernetes clusters throughout their lifecycle
• Develop reusable platform tooling and infrastructure automation
• Improve capacity management, autoscaling, and resource allocation
• Make workloads and platform capabilities easier to manage across clusters and cloud environments
• Integrate security, patching, and compliance into day-to-day operations
• Work with platform users to prioritize improvements and build multi-use components
• Own the reliability of built systems including incident response through an on-call rotation
• Take ownership of a defined area and make progress independently

Required qualifications

• At least five years of experience building core infrastructure
• Strong software engineering skills
• Experience building shared cloud or cluster platforms
• Experience with cluster lifecycle, infrastructure automation, capacity, autoscaling, tenancy or safe production changes

Nice to have

• Kubernetes experience
• Infrastructure as code and repeatable cluster provisioning, including Terraform or comparable tooling
• Production Kubernetes operations, cluster and node upgrades, resource isolation, quotas or autoscaling policy design
• Shared platforms spanning multiple clusters or cloud providers
• Building platform APIs, controllers or operational automation

Benefits

• Relocation assistance

Before you apply

• Background checks for applicants will be administered in accordance with applicable law

About the company

OpenAI is an AI research and deployment company dedicated to ensuring that general-purpose artificial intelligence benefits all of humanity.