Software Engineer, Infranomics

The role

You will lead the design, implementation, and operation of systems for infrastructure cost and efficiency. You will build platforms to explain infrastructure spend, identify utilization opportunities, and help teams plan capacity.

What you will do

• Define technical direction and roadmap for infrastructure cost and efficiency systems.
• Build billing, usage metering, and cost attribution systems.
• Develop data pipelines and shared data models for cost and capacity.
• Build tools for budgeting, forecasting, and capacity planning.
• Identify underutilized resources and partner with engineering teams to deliver improvements.
• Create APIs, reporting tools, and automated controls for consumption and budget management.
• Provide technical leadership, mentor engineers, and own system correctness and scalability.

Required qualifications

• Over 7 years of experience designing, building, and operating production software and distributed systems.
• Technical ownership across multiple teams or a significant infrastructure domain.

Nice to have

• Experience building and operating software for infrastructure economics such as usage metering, cost attribution, resource efficiency, budgeting, forecasting, or capacity planning.
• Experience owning systems that connect compute, storage, or network consumption to cost.
• Experience building internal platforms for visibility into cloud spend, resource utilization, and ownership.
• Experience developing batch or streaming data pipelines, financial data platforms, or large-scale analytics systems.
• Experience with Kubernetes, public cloud infrastructure, or resource management systems.
• Experience automating resource allocation, cost allocation policies, budget tracking, or capacity forecasting.

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.