Software Engineer, Cloud Infrastructure
About the Team The Applied Engineering team works across research, engineering, product, and design to bring OpenAI’s technology to consumers and businesses. You’ll join the team responsible for running the core infrastructure that supports products like ChatGPT and the API.
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Software Engineer, Cloud Infrastructure at OpenAI in San Francisco. UpJobz keeps this listing high-signal for applicants targeting serious high-tech roles across the United States, Canada, and Mexico. About the Team The Applied Engineering team works across research, engineering, product, and design to bring OpenAI’s technology to consumers and businesses. You’ll join the team responsible for running the core infrastructure that supports products like ChatGPT and the API.
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- 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.
- Have 5+ years building core infrastructure
- Have experience operating orchestration systems such as Kubernetes at scale
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- 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.
- Have 5+ years building core infrastructure
- Have experience operating orchestration systems such as Kubernetes at scale
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