Software Engineer, Agent Platform

The role

You will build and scale services that power agentic products. You will design APIs, improve agent execution, and build integrations to support capable agents.

What you will do

• Build and operate production services that enable agents to execute code, use tools, and interact with external systems.
• Design APIs and platform abstractions that make it easier for product teams to build and launch agentic experiences.
• Develop orchestration systems that manage agent execution, state, resource allocation, retries, and recovery.
• Improve platform reliability, latency, and efficiency through performance optimization, observability, and capacity planning.
• Partner with product, research, security, and infrastructure teams to bring new agent capabilities into production.
• Own systems through their full lifecycle, from design and implementation to rollout, monitoring, and ongoing operation.

Required qualifications

• Experience building and operating large-scale backend services, distributed systems, or cloud infrastructure.
• Experience with cloud platforms, containers, orchestration systems, or infrastructure-as-code tools such as Terraform.

Nice to have

• Experience building shared platforms and APIs that help other engineers move faster.
• Interest in secure execution environments, sandboxing, and the challenges of running agent workloads in production.

Benefits

• Relocation assistance to new employees

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.