Software Engineer, Data Infrastructure
About the Team 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 exabyte-scale architecture;
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Software Engineer, Data 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 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 exabyte-scale architecture;
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- 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
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