Software Engineer, Product Velocity

The role

You will work as an infrastructure engineer to make ChatGPT development faster and more reliable. You will improve local development, build systems, CI, deployment infrastructure, and production safety signals.

What you will do

• Reduce local development startup and iteration latency for ChatGPT engineers
• Improve Bazel and build performance for local machines, devboxes, and CI
• Improve CI reliability and merge throughput
• Build agents that help PRs make forward progress
• Make deploy pipelines more self-healing
• Improve deploy observability
• Establish lightweight metrics for before-and-after impact

Required qualifications

• Strong experience with large-scale developer infrastructure, build systems, CI/CD, deployment systems, or production reliability
• Ability to debug across local machines, devboxes, remote caches, monorepos, service dependencies, auth systems, and distributed deploy pipelines
• Comfort with systems like Bazel, Buildkite, Kubernetes, Temporal, Python/TypeScript services, GitHub workflows, and large monorepo tooling

Nice to have

• Experience improving developer experience in a very large monorepo
• Experience with remote execution, remote caching, hermetic builds, or cache reproducibility
• Experience designing CI quarantine, test ownership, merge queue, or auto-revert systems
• Experience with progressive delivery, canary/preview/stable deploy pipelines, synthetics, alert quality, and deploy-manager style workflows
• Experience building agent-assisted developer workflows, such as automated PR babysitting, CI triage, or conflict resolution

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.