Software Engineer, Compute - Storage
Core
Building and operating the storage foundation for OpenAI's research and production systems, including object storage, cross-region data movement, and federation layers.
Role type
Senior IC infrastructure engineer (storage systems)
Builds
Production storage services, object stores, and data movement systems for AI research workloads
Domain
Cloud infrastructure, distributed systems, AI research support
Deliverable
production ML models | infrastructure
Required skills
distributed systems, object storage, Kubernetes, Rust, Terraform, observability tooling
Preferred skills
debugging, long-term reliability improvements, systems-oriented programming
Technologies
Kubernetes, Rust, Terraform, Grafana
Responsibilities
Build and operate storage services, develop object storage systems, build cross-region data movement systems, design lifecycle management capabilities, evolve the federation layer, improve platform performance and reliability
Seniority
Senior, hands-on IC