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OpenAI · 10 hours ago

Software Engineer, Cloud Infrastructure

positionSan Francisco, CA
timeFull-time
remoteOnsite
senioritySenior Level
money$255K/yr - $490K/yr
date5+ years exp

OpenAI is an AI research and deployment company dedicated to ensuring that general-purpose artificial intelligence benefits all of humanity. The cloud infrastructure team builds and maintains infrastructure abstractions allowing OpenAI to ship products quickly and scalably, focusing on reliability, security, and inclusivity in their culture.

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 and build the development and production platforms that power our products, enabling reliability and security at scale
Ensure our infrastructure can scale to the next order of magnitude
Help create a diverse, equitable, and inclusive culture that makes all feel welcome while enabling radical candor and the challenging of group think
Like all other teams, we are responsible for the reliability of the systems we build. This includes an on-call rotation to respond to critical incidents as needed

Qualification

KubernetesCloud infrastructureScalable systemsInfrastructure designSecurityDiversityInclusionReliabilityAdaptability

Required

5+ years building core infrastructure
Experience operating orchestration systems such as Kubernetes at scale
Experience building abstractions over cloud platforms
Take pride in building and operating scalable, reliable, secure systems
Comfortable with ambiguity and rapid change

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)
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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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