Software Engineer, Data InfrastructureActive$185K–$385K

The opportunity

Data Platform at OpenAI owns the foundational data stack powering critical product, research, and analytics workflows. We operate some of the largest Spark compute fleets in production; design, and build data lakes and metadata systems on Iceberg and Delta with a vision toward…

What you'll do

  • 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

  • Have 4+ years in data infrastructure engineering OR

What they're looking for

  • Have 4+ years in infrastructure engineering with a strong interest in data
  • Take pride in building and operating scalable, reliable, secure systems
  • Are comfortable with ambiguity and rapid change
  • Have an intrinsic desire to learn and fill in missing skills, and an equally: strong talent for sharing learnings clearly and concisely with others