OpenAI•23 days ago
Software Engineer, Infrastructure
Recruiter Fit Breakdown & Candid Summary
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This role is for experienced systems engineers who thrive on solving complex, large-scale distributed systems challenges.
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Ideal candidates have a strong background in backend infrastructure, reliability, or developer tooling and enjoy working across the stack.
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This is not a role for those who prefer working in isolation; it requires heavy cross-functional collaboration with researchers and product teams.
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The seniority level is mid-to-senior, requiring a proven track record of leading complex technical projects.
Role Responsibilities
- 1Design, build, and maintain reliable and performant systems used across engineering.
- 2Define technical strategy, architecture, and long-term goals for infrastructure focus areas.
- 3Collaborate with product managers and researchers to meet evolving infrastructure needs.
- 4Improve internal tooling, automation, and developer experience.
- 5Contribute to incident response, postmortems, and system reliability best practices.
Skills Matrix
Must-Have Skills
Distributed Systems
Python
Go(Golang)
C++
Rust
Linux
Kubernetes(k8s)
Terraform
CI/CD
Nice-to-Have Skills
Observability
Reliability Engineering(SRE)
Database Systems
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