Software Engineer, Compute - Storage

The role

You will build and operate the storage platform that powers OpenAI's research and production systems. This involves working on object storage, cross-region data movement, lifecycle management, and the federation layer.

What you will do

• Build and operate storage services that underpin OpenAI's research infrastructure
• Develop object storage systems across cloud and in-house environments
• Build systems for cross-region data movement, replication, and recovery
• Design lifecycle management capabilities
• Evolve the federation layer that unifies multiple backend systems
• Improve performance, reliability, and operational excellence across the platform
• Collaborate closely with researchers and infrastructure teams

Required qualifications

• Experience building or operating distributed systems in production
• Worked on storage infrastructure, object stores, distributed filesystems, or other data-intensive backend systems
• Write strong production code
• Comfortable working with Kubernetes-based systems

Nice to have

• Ideally in Rust or another systems-oriented language
• Experience with tools such as Terraform, Grafana, or similar infrastructure and observability tooling

About the company

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