Software Engineer, Compute Foundations

📋 Description

• Design, build, and operate Kubernetes-based controllers and distributed services that coordinate
• Define APIs and resource models that let clients request and track lifecycle operations through
• Build provisioning and configuration services that coordinate network boot, hardware management
• Develop lifecycle management for discovery, allocation, provisioning, upgrades, maintenance
• Design reliable reconciliation and recovery through concurrent changes, interrupted operations, and
• Improve control-plane throughput, API latency, and the time infrastructure takes to reach its

🎯 Requirements

• Strong software engineering fundamentals and experience designing, implementing, and owning
• Experience developing infrastructure systems that use Kubernetes APIs and reconciliation to manage
• Understanding of how a bare-metal node moves from power-on to a configured, workload-ready system
• Ability to design reliable APIs and asynchronous workflows, reasoning about concurrency
• Ability to diagnose reliability and performance problems across service, operating-system, and
• Work effectively across engineering specialties and communicate system behavior and technical

🎁 Benefits

• Offers Equity
• Salary range: $255K – $490K per year
• Opportunity to work on cutting-edge AI infrastructure at OpenAI
• Equal opportunity employer
• Reasonable accommodations for applicants with disabilities
• Potential for remote work (not specified, but OpenAI supports flexible work arrangements)