Software Engineer, API Multicloud

The role

You will design, build, and operate cloud infrastructure and distributed services that run OpenAI's API across CSP platforms. This involves managing model-serving environments, planning capacity, and creating repeatable release processes.

What you will do

• Design and build cloud infrastructure and distributed services.
• Stand up and operate model-serving environments in partnership with inference engineers.
• Plan and manage cloud capacity, utilization, caching, and cost efficiency.
• Create repeatable build, release, and validation processes.
• Develop reusable infrastructure abstractions for different CSPs.
• Partner with internal teams and CSP engineers to bring up the API serving stack.
• Own production health through observability, incident diagnosis, and automation.

Required qualifications

• 7+ years of experience leading cloud infrastructure or distributed systems projects from architecture through launch and production ownership.
• Strong distributed systems fundamentals.
• Hands-on experience building and operating services on a major CSP, including deployment systems, networking, storage, and cloud-native integrations.
• Strong production coding and debugging skills.
• Experience with capacity planning, performance optimization, or operational tooling for production systems at scale.
• Sound technical judgment.
• Clear technical communication and experience working across teams or organizational boundaries.

Nice to have

• Experience deploying models

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.