Software Engineer, Cloud Agents

The role

You will design and operate systems for orchestrating agents at scale. You will build and scale the cloud agent platform for Codex, ChatGPT, and the OpenAI API.

What you will do

• Design and scale the orchestration, sandboxing and storage systems that run agentic workloads.
• Partner with product engineers to build a platform that enables them to ship quickly.
• Improve reliability, security, performance, and cost efficiency for long-running agents.
• Deploy services that can operate across different environments and clouds.

Required qualifications

• 9+ years of professional engineering experience, excluding internships, in relevant roles at technology and product-driven companies.
• Experience leading large-scale backend, platform, or infrastructure projects from ambiguous problem statements to production systems.
• Proficiency in one or more backend languages such as Python, Go, Rust, TypeScript, or similar.
• Strong understanding of distributed systems, cloud platforms, and production reliability.
• Ability to move across service, platform, and product boundaries.
• Comfort with a fast-moving pace while caring for security and operational excellence.

Nice to have

• Experience with Python, Rust, distributed systems, cloud infrastructure, or product platforms

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.