Software Engineer, Data Infrastructure

The role

You will design, build, and operate data infrastructure systems including distributed compute, storage, and streaming infrastructure. This role involves scaling and hardening big data platforms to support massive compute fleets and storage systems.

What you will do

• Design, build, and maintain data infrastructure systems such as distributed compute, data orchestration, distributed storage, streaming infrastructure, machine learning infrastructure
• Ensure the data platform can scale by orders of magnitude while remaining reliable and efficient
• Accelerate company productivity by empowering teammates with excellent data tooling and systems
• Collaborate with product, research and analytics teams to build technical foundation capabilities
• Own the reliability of the systems you build, including participation in an on-call rotation

Required qualifications

• 4+ years in data infrastructure engineering OR 4+ years in infrastructure engineering with a strong interest in data
• Supported Spark, Kafka, Flink, Airflow, Trino, or Iceberg as platforms
• Well-versed in infrastructure tooling like Terraform
• Experienced in debugging large-scale distributed systems

Benefits

• Relocation assistance to new employees

Before you apply

• Background checks for applicants will be administered

About the company

OpenAI is an AI research and deployment company dedicated to ensuring that general-purpose artificial intelligence benefits all of humanity.