At a glance
- Employment
- Full-time
- Workplace
- Hybrid
- Location
- San Francisco
About OpenAI
- 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. AI is an extremely powerful tool that must be created with safety and human needs at its core, and to achieve our mission, we must encompass and value the many different perspectives, voices, and experiences that form the full spectrum of humanity.
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About the role
- OpenAI is hiring an experienced infrastructure engineer to join the ChatGPT Velocity team.
- The role focuses on making ChatGPT development faster and more reliable by improving local development, build systems, CI/CD, and deployment infrastructure.
- You will treat engineers as users, diagnosing distributed systems and building automation to reduce friction in the path from development to production.
Responsibilities
- Reduce local development startup and iteration latency for ChatGPT engineers.
- Improve Bazel and build performance, including cache effectiveness, reproducibility, and observability.
- Improve CI reliability and merge throughput by reducing unrelated failures and flaky tests.
- Build agents to assist PR progress, including rebasing, conflict resolution, and CI triage.
- Develop self-healing deploy pipelines to reduce manual intervention.
- Improve deploy observability to track change status and ownership.
- Establish metrics for developer productivity, such as commit-to-prod latency and failure rates.
Requirements
- Strong experience with large-scale developer infrastructure, build systems, CI/CD, deployment systems, or production reliability.
- Ability to debug across local machines, devboxes, remote caches, monorepos, service dependencies, and distributed pipelines.
- Comfortable with systems like Bazel, Buildkite, Kubernetes, Temporal, Python/TypeScript services, and GitHub workflows.
- Ability to replace manual intervention with policy-backed automation while preserving production safety.
- Strong communication skills to translate developer pain into metrics and shipped fixes.
Preferred qualifications
- Experience improving developer experience in a very large monorepo.
- Experience with remote execution, remote caching, hermetic builds, or cache reproducibility.
- Experience designing CI quarantine, test ownership, merge queue, or auto-revert systems.
- Experience with progressive delivery, canary/preview/stable deploy pipelines, synthetics, alert quality, and deploy-manager style workflows.
- Experience building agent-assisted developer workflows.
- Familiarity with security and access-control constraints around secrets, internal auth, VPN/exit-node networking, and local development.
Skills
- Bazel
- Buildkite
- Kubernetes
- Temporal
- Python
- TypeScript
- GitHub
