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 multi-cloud compute platforms.

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 components for multiple use cases.
• 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 problems such as 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.

About the company

OpenAI is an AI research and deployment company dedicated to ensuring that general-purpose artificial intelligence benefits all of humanity. They push the boundaries of AI capabilities and seek to safely deploy them to the world.