Senior Software Engineer, Infrastructure

OpenAI

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Research Services 👥 201 employees 📍 San Francisco, CA, US Est. 2015

OpenAI is an AI research and deployment company dedicated to ensuring that general-purpose artificial intelligence benefits all of humanity. AI is an extremely powerful tool that must be created with…

Job Overview

As a Senior Infrastructure Engineer on the Statsig team, you will build and scale the foundational infrastructure that powers OpenAI’s experimentation and rollout tools. You’ll work on the distributed systems that deliver configuration decisions in real time, ingest massive volumes of experimentation data, and power analytics that help teams understand how product and model changes perform in production. This role is deeply technical and focuses on performance, scalability, and reliability at extreme scale.

Key Responsibilities

• Design and operate low-latency configuration delivery systems powering progressive rollouts across OpenAI’s product suites.


• Build highly scalable data ingestion and analytics infrastructure to support experimentation, product analytics, and feature performance monitoring.


• Improve the performance, efficiency, and reliability of Statsig’s core infrastructure, ensuring systems remain fast and stable as OpenAI’s products scale globally.


• Optimize query performance and data availability for experimentation and analytics workflows used by teams across OpenAI.


• Lead large technical initiatives and shape the architecture of experimentation and rollout infrastructure used across the company.

Required Qualifications

• Have experience building large-scale distributed systems with strict performance and reliability requirements.


• Enjoy solving low-latency systems problems, such as real-time configuration delivery, high-throughput ingestion pipelines, or large-scale analytics systems.


• Have experience building and optimizing large-scale data platforms, event pipelines, etc.


• Care deeply about system reliability, observability, and operational excellence in production environments.


• Take ownership of complex technical problems end-to-end and enjoy building infrastructure that enables other teams to move faster.

About OpenAI

OpenAI is an AI research and deployment company dedicated to ensuring that general-purpose artificial intelligence benefits all of humanity. We push the boundaries of the capabilities of AI systems and seek to safely deploy them to the world through our products. AI is an extremely powerful tool that must be created with safety and human needs at its core, and to achieve our mission, we must encompass and value the many different perspectives, voices, and experiences that form the full spectrum of humanity.

We are an equal opportunity employer, and we do not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, color, national origin, sex, sexual orientation, age, veteran status, disability, genetic information, or other applicable legally protected characteristic.

Benefits

• Medical, dental, and vision insurance for you and your family, with employer contributions to Health Savings Accounts


• Pre-tax accounts for Health FSA, Dependent Care FSA, and commuter expenses (parking and transit)


• 401(k) retirement plan with employer match


• Paid parental leave (up to 24 weeks for birth parents and 20 weeks for non-birthing parents), plus paid medical and caregiver leave (up to 8 weeks)


• Paid time off: flexible PTO for exempt employees and up to 15 days annually for non-exempt employees


• 13+ paid company holidays, and multiple paid coordinated company office closures throughout the year for focus and recharge, plus paid sick or safe time (1 hour per 30 hours worked, or more, as required by applicable state or local law)


• Mental health and wellness support


• Employer-paid basic life and disability coverage


• Annual learning and development stipend to fuel your professional growth


• Daily meals in our offices, and meal delivery credits as eligible


• Relocation support for eligible employees


• Additional taxable fringe benefits, such as charitable donation matching and wellness stipends, may also be provided.