OpenAI · 10 hours ago
Software Engineer, Data Infrastructure
San Francisco, CA
Full-time
Hybrid
Mid, Senior Level
$210K/yr - $405K/yr
4+ years expOpenAI is an AI research and deployment company dedicated to ensuring that general-purpose artificial intelligence benefits all of humanity. The role focuses on building and operating data infrastructure that supports massive compute fleets and storage systems, emphasizing scalability, reliability, and security in data access and processing.
Agentic AIArtificial Intelligence (AI)Foundational AIGenerative AIMachine LearningNatural Language ProcessingSaaS
Responsibilities
Design, build, and maintain data infrastructure systems such as distributed compute, data orchestration, distributed storage, streaming infrastructure, machine learning infrastructure while ensuring scalability, reliability, and security
Ensure our data platform can scale by orders of magnitude while remaining reliable and efficient
Accelerate company productivity by empowering your fellow engineers & teammates with excellent data tooling and systems
Collaborate with product, research and analytics teams to build the technical foundations capabilities that unlock new features and experiences
Own the reliability of the systems you build, including participation in an on-call rotation for critical incidents
Qualification
Required
4+ years in data infrastructure engineering OR
4+ years in infrastructure engineering with a strong interest in data
Experience supporting Spark, Kafka, Flink, Airflow, Trino, or Iceberg as platforms
Well-versed in infrastructure tooling like Terraform
Experienced in debugging large-scale distributed systems
Ability to design, build, and maintain data infrastructure systems such as distributed compute, data orchestration, distributed storage, streaming infrastructure, machine learning infrastructure while ensuring scalability, reliability, and security
Ability to ensure data platform can scale by orders of magnitude while remaining reliable and efficient
Ability to accelerate company productivity by empowering fellow engineers & teammates with excellent data tooling and systems
Ability to collaborate with product, research and analytics teams to build the technical foundations capabilities that unlock new features and experiences
Ownership of the reliability of the systems built, including participation in an on-call rotation for critical incidents
Comfortable with ambiguity and rapid change
Intrinsic desire to learn and fill in missing skills, and talent for sharing learnings clearly and concisely with others
Benefits
Relocation assistance
Company
OpenAI
OpenAI is an AI research and deployment company that develops advanced AI models, including ChatGPT. It is a sub-organization of OpenAI Foundation.
201-500 employees
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2025 (1)
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2022 (18)
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Funding
Current Stage
Growth StageTotal Funding
$79BKey Investors
The Walt Disney CompanySoftBankThrive Capital
2025-12-11Corporate Round· $1B
2025-10-02Secondary Market· $6.6B
2025-03-31Series Unknown· $40B
Leadership Team
Sam Altman
CEO & Co-Founder
Greg Brockman
President, Chairman, & Co-Founder
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