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OpenAI · 4 hours ago

Software Engineer, Core Services

positionSan Francisco, CA
timeFull-time
remoteHybrid
seniorityMid Level
money$255K/yr - $405K/yr

OpenAI is an AI research and deployment company dedicated to ensuring that general-purpose artificial intelligence benefits all of humanity. In this role, you will design and operate critical backend platforms, focusing on building reliable and scalable systems that support product engineering teams.

Agentic AIArtificial Intelligence (AI)Foundational AIGenerative AIMachine LearningNatural Language ProcessingSaaS
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Growth Opportunities
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H1B Sponsor Likelynote

Responsibilities

Design, build, and maintain shared infrastructure services such as caching layers, workflow orchestration (Temporal), metadata stores, and file storage services
Collaborate with product teams to provide scalable, reliable primitives that abstract the complexities of distributed systems
Improve performance, resilience, and scalability of core services that power customer-facing applications

Qualification

Distributed systemsCaching infrastructureWorkflow orchestrationContainerized servicesCloud environmentsCommunicationCollaboration

Required

Experience with distributed systems, caching infrastructure (e.g., Redis, Memcached), metadata storage (e.g., FoundationDB), or workflow orchestration (e.g., Temporal, Cadence)
Experience running containerized services in cloud environments and integrating them into automated build/test/release (CI/CD) workflows
Understanding of trade-offs in consistency models, replication strategies, and performance optimization in multi-region systems
Excellent communication and collaboration skills with cross-functional teams
Obsessed with delivering customer success

Benefits

Relocation assistance

Company

OpenAI

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OpenAI is an AI research and deployment company that develops advanced AI models, including ChatGPT. It is a sub-organization of OpenAI Foundation.
dateFounded in 2015
location
San Francisco, California, USA
people-size201-500 employees
web-link
https://www.openai.com

H1B Sponsorship

OpenAI has a track record of offering H1B sponsorships. Please note that this does not guarantee sponsorship for this specific role. Below presents additional info for your reference. (Data Powered by US Department of Labor)
Distribution of Different Job Fields Receiving Sponsorship
Represents job field similar to this job
Trends of Total Sponsorships
2025 (1)
2024 (1)
2023 (1)
2022 (18)
2021 (10)
2020 (6)

Funding

Current Stage
Growth Stage
Total Funding
$79B
Key Investors
The Walt Disney CompanySoftBankThrive Capital
2025-12-11Corporate Round· $1B
2025-10-02Secondary Market· $6.6B
2025-03-31Series Unknown· $40B

Leadership Team

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Sam Altman
CEO & Co-Founder
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Greg Brockman
President, Chairman, & Co-Founder
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