Software Engineer, Observability
Join the engineering teams that bring OpenAI’s ideas safely to the world!! The Applied Engineering team works across research, engineering, product, and design to bring OpenAI’s technology to consumers and businesses.
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Software Engineer, Observability 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. Join the engineering teams that bring OpenAI’s ideas safely to the world!! The Applied Engineering team works across research, engineering, product, and design to bring OpenAI’s technology to consumers and businesses.
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- Own core observability infrastructure, including distributed logging, time series, and trace storage
- Build AI-native tools that help engineers detect, understand, and resolve issues autonomously.
- Contribute to UI experiences like dashboards, notebooking, or interactive debugging
- Collaborate closely with engineers, researchers, user ops, and other teams across the company to build the next generation observability product
- Have operated large-scale distributed systems in production. ( especially logging systems or some other time series databases)
- Thrive in ambiguous environments and roll up your sleeves to solve unscoped problems.
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- Own core observability infrastructure, including distributed logging, time series, and trace storage
- Build AI-native tools that help engineers detect, understand, and resolve issues autonomously.
- Contribute to UI experiences like dashboards, notebooking, or interactive debugging
- Collaborate closely with engineers, researchers, user ops, and other teams across the company to build the next generation observability product
- Have operated large-scale distributed systems in production. ( especially logging systems or some other time series databases)
- Thrive in ambiguous environments and roll up your sleeves to solve unscoped problems.
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