Software Engineer, Infrastructure - Analytics Platform

The role

You will own critical systems across architecture, implementation, and deployment to support research analytics. You will design and operate ingestion, storage, and query systems for structured and unstructured research data.

What you will do

• Own critical systems across architecture, implementation, integrations, deployment, monitoring, and adoption.
• Design, build, and operate ingestion, storage, retrieval, and query systems.
• Build platforms for analyzing structured metrics and unstructured research data.
• Reason about algorithms, data structures, concurrency, storage layout, and distributed systems.
• Make architectural tradeoffs regarding data models, storage formats, and query execution.
• Work directly with researchers to understand their needs and translate them into platform components.
• Turn recurring patterns into shared infrastructure, APIs, or agent-driven workflows.
• Write code, investigate production issues, and guide other engineers.
• Think through testing, rollout, observability, and rollback.
• Keep solutions as simple as the problem allows.

Required qualifications

• Experience with high performing programing languages (Rust or C++).
• Experience with performance profiling, concurrency, async execution, memory behavior, serialization, I/O, networking, and failure analysis.
• Deep expertise in at least one relevant area such as distributed databases, storage engines, analytics systems, telemetry, logging, search, ingestion, or query execution.
• Ability to reason about partitioning, replication, consistency, retries, backpressure, event lineage, duplicate or delayed data, overload, migrations, and failure isolation.
• Strong computer science fundamentals and algorithmic reasoning.

Nice to have

• Direct ClickHouse experience is helpful
• Experience with ClickHouse or similar OLAP, columnar, time-series, or high-throughput analytical systems
• Competitive-programming experience is welcome

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 AI capabilities and seek to safely deploy them to the world.