Software Engineer, Product Infrastructure - Agent Runtime

The role

You will build services, APIs, and runtime capabilities for persistent agents. You will focus on product infrastructure including persistent state, asynchronous execution, orchestration, and visibility.

What you will do

• Design, build, and operate backend services, APIs, and reusable runtime primitives.
• Build systems for persistent agent state, asynchronous execution, orchestration, and progress reporting.
• Develop infrastructure that connects agents with tools and execution environments.
• Improve reliability, scalability, and performance through observability, production debugging, and failure recovery.
• Partner with Product, Research, and engineering teams to turn capabilities into reusable infrastructure.
• Own projects end to end from design through production operation.

Required qualifications

• 7+ years of professional software engineering experience.
• Substantial ownership of backend systems, product infrastructure, or developer platforms.
• Track record of designing, shipping, and operating production services, APIs, and data models.
• Strong distributed systems fundamentals.
• Experience reasoning about state, concurrency, asynchronous work, and failure recovery.
• Experience building production systems in Python, Go, Rust, TypeScript, or similar languages.
• Experience improving reliability and performance using observability and debugging.
• Strong product judgment and developer empathy.
• Ability to collaborate across product and infrastructure teams.

Nice to have

• Experience with agent runtimes, workflow orchestration, or execution environments

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.