Software Engineer, Habitat (Online Data)Active$230K–$385K

The opportunity

Online Data builds and operates Habitat, the single product surface of Online Data and the system of record for OpenAI’s online user data.

What you'll do

  • Provisioning and developer experience

  • APIs and guardrails

  • Scaling, performance, and reliability

  • Data movement, caching, routing, and placement

  • Privacy enforcement and access control

  • Change Data Capture (CDC) as a first-class primitive

What they're looking for

  • + years of industry experience building production software, including 3+: years leading large-scale, complex projects or technical initiatives as a tech lead or senior IC
  • Strong passion for building distributed systems at scale, with a focus on: reliability, scalability, security, and continuous improvement
  • Proficiency in Rust and/or Python (Rust preferred for core systems work;: Python commonly used for tooling, services, and ecosystem integration)
  • Excellent communication skills, with the ability to build alignment and drive: decisions across diverse technical and non-technical stakeholders.