Openai
Software Engineer, ChatGPT Infrastructure
London, UK. Posted 3 months ago
The role
You will design, build, and maintain backend systems that support high-traffic ChatGPT experiences. The role involves developing shared services, improving production system performance, and managing distributed systems at scale.
What you will do
- Design, build, and maintain backend systems supporting high-traffic ChatGPT experiences.
- Develop shared services, APIs, and infrastructure.
- Improve performance, scalability, and efficiency of production systems.
- Build and improve systems for asynchronous processing and large-scale backend workloads.
- Lead architectural improvements and infrastructure migrations.
- Strengthen monitoring, alerting, and diagnostics.
- Participate in on-call, incident response, and root-cause analysis.
- Work across product and infrastructure teams.
- Build automation and tooling to reduce repetitive operational work.
Required qualifications
- 4+ years of professional software engineering experience, including significant experience building backend or distributed systems.
- Strong proficiency in at least one general-purpose programming language.
- Experience writing reliable, maintainable production code.
- Experience designing, building, or improving services, platforms, or shared infrastructure at scale.
- Familiarity with production reliability practices, including monitoring, incident response, root-cause analysis, and operational readiness.
- Experience diagnosing performance, scalability, or reliability issues in production environments.
- Understanding of distributed systems, data storage, concurrency, asynchronous processing, or networking.
- Familiarity with modern deployment, observability, and cloud infrastructure practices.
- Ability to lead complex technical work and collaborate effectively across product and infrastructure teams.
Nice to have
- Experience with cloud infrastructure
- Experience with containerized environments
- Experience with observability tools
About the company
OpenAI is an AI research and deployment company dedicated to ensuring that general-purpose artificial intelligence benefits all of humanity. They seek to safely deploy AI to the world through their products.