Software Engineer, Observability

The role

You will build the observability product for OpenAI, including scalable infrastructure and AI-powered UI. You will own core observability infrastructure and build AI-native tools to help engineers detect and resolve issues.

What you will do

• Own core observability infrastructure, including distributed logging, time series, and trace storage
• Build AI-native tools that help engineers detect, understand, and resolve issues autonomously
• Contribute to UI experiences like dashboards, notebooking, or interactive debugging
• Collaborate closely with engineers, researchers, user ops, and other teams

Required qualifications

• Have operated large-scale distributed systems in production
• Thrive in ambiguous environments and roll up your sleeves to solve unscoped problems
• Have full-stack chops or product sensibilities
• Have strong fundamentals in systems, networking, and cloud infra (Kubernetes, AWS, etc)

Nice to have

• built or contributed to observability systems (e.g. Prometheus, OpenTelemetry, etc)

About the company

OpenAI is an AI research and deployment company dedicated to ensuring that general-purpose artificial intelligence benefits all of humanity. They push the boundaries of the capabilities of AI systems and seek to safely deploy them to the world through their products.