Software Engineer, Cloud Agents

## About the Team The Cloud Agents team builds product infrastructure for long-running agents in the cloud: orchestration, sandboxing and isolation, secure environment connectivity, secrets and identity, observability, reliability, and cost controls. These agents securely connect to diverse developer and customer environments and use tools to accomplish goals. We partner closely with product, research, and infrastructure teams to turn agentic capabilities into dependable platforms for OpenAI products and developers building on OpenAI. ## About the Role We are looking for an experienced software engineer to help build and scale our cloud agent platform. You will design and operate systems for orchestrating agents at scale. You will work closely with product engineers on ChatGPT, API, and Codex to define the right abstractions and enable them to ship products quickly. Strong backend or infrastructure experience is important; experience with Python, Rust, distributed systems, cloud infrastructure, or product platforms is especially helpful. ## Responsibilities - Design and scale the orchestration, sandboxing and storage systems that run agentic workloads for Codex, ChatGPT, and the OpenAI API. - Partner with product engineers to build a platform that enables them to ship quickly and turn feedback into robust abstractions. - Improve reliability, security, performance, and cost efficiency for long-running agents. - Deploy services that can operate across different environments and clouds. ## Requirements - 9+ years of professional engineering experience, excluding internships, in relevant roles at technology and product-driven companies. - Experience leading large-scale backend, platform, or infrastructure projects from ambiguous problem statements to production systems. - Proficiency in one or more backend languages such as Python, Go, Rust, TypeScript, or similar, and the ability to move across service, platform, and product boundaries. - Strong understanding of distributed systems, cloud platforms, and production reliability. - Enjoy abstracting away complex infrastructure and building platforms for product engineers to move faster. - Care about building platforms for other engineers and developers, and enjoy working closely with users to make complex infrastructure feel simple. - Comfort with a fast-moving pace while caring for security and operational excellence. ## Benefits - Work with cutting-edge AI technologies. - Collaborate with cross-functional teams including product, research, and infrastructure. - Contribute to the development of reliable and secure cloud platforms. - Opportunity to influence the direction of OpenAI's product infrastructure. ## 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. We are an equal opportunity employer, and we do not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, color, national origin, sex, sexual orientation, age, veteran status, disability, genetic information, or other applicable legally protected characteristic. For additional information, please see OpenAI’s Affirmative Action and Equal Employment Opportunity Policy Statement. Background checks for applicants will be administered in accordance with applicable law, and qualified applicants with arrest or conviction records will be considered for employment consistent with those laws, including the San Francisco Fair Chance Ordinance, the Los Angeles County Fair Chance Ordinance for Employers, and the California Fair Chance Act, for US-based candidates. To notify OpenAI that you believe this job posting is non-compliant, please submit a report through this form. No response will be provided to inquiries unrelated to job posting compliance. We are committed to providing reasonable accommodations to applicants with disabilities, and requests can be made via this link. OpenAI Global Applicant Privacy Policy At OpenAI, we believe artificial intelligence has the potential to help people solve immense global challenges, and we want the upside of AI to be widely shared. Join us in shaping the future of technology.