About the company
OpenAI is an AI research and deployment company dedicated to ensuring that general-purpose artificial intelligence benefits all of humanity. We push the boundaries of the capabilities of AI systems and seek to safely deploy them to the world through our products.
Responsibilities
- Design, build, and operate backend services, APIs, and reusable runtime primitives that support agent experiences across products.
- Build systems for persistent agent state, asynchronous execution, orchestration, and progress reporting so agents can carry work forward over time.
- Develop infrastructure that connects agents with tools and execution environments, with clear interfaces and safe, reliable behavior.
- Improve reliability, scalability, and performance through observability, production debugging, failure recovery, and thoughtful system design.
- Partner with Product, Research, and engineering teams to turn emerging capabilities and customer needs into reusable infrastructure.
- Own projects end to end, balancing rapid iteration with maintainable architecture and the operational demands of systems used across products.
Requirements
- 7+ years of professional software engineering experience, with substantial ownership of backend systems, product infrastructure, or developer platforms.
- A track record of designing, shipping, and operating production services, APIs, and data models that support complex product workflows.
- Strong distributed systems fundamentals and experience reasoning about state, concurrency, asynchronous work, and failure recovery.
- Experience building production systems in Python, Go, Rust, TypeScript, or similar languages, and the ability to work across service and infrastructure boundaries.
- Experience improving reliability and performance, using observability and debugging to understand system behavior and resolve production issues.
- Strong product judgment and developer empathy, with an ability to translate ambiguous needs into clear APIs, useful abstractions, and pragmatic technical tradeoffs.
- An ability to collaborate across product and infrastructure teams, communicate design decisions clearly, and take ownership from early exploration through production.
- Interest in AI agents and how they execute real work. Experience with agent runtimes, workflow orchestration, or execution environments is helpful but not required.
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