engineering
Posted Apr 28Software Engineer, Productivity - Networking
at openai
San Francisco, United StatesOn-site
Requirements
- experience of engineers working on complex infrastructure systems — especially around build systems, test architecture, release pipelines, and reliable development workflows.
- you will: - Improve development workflows for engineers building and operating OpenAI’s networking systems - Design and improve continuous deployment, release, and validation pipelines - Build and maintain test harnesses for multi-server, networked, and hardware-backed environments - Improve iteration speed across C++, Python, and build-system-heavy codebases - Partner with engineers to identify friction in CI, testing, debugging, and deployment workflows - Drive testing and reliability strategy for
- experience with CI/CD, release pipelines, testing infrastructure, or build systems - You are comfortable moving between C++, Python, and build systems such as CMake, Bazel, or Blaze - You enjoy building test harnesses, automation, and workflow improvements for complex systems - You do not need to be a networking expert, but you are excited to learn enough about the domain to make the team meaningfully more effective - When you see repeated friction — slow builds, flaky tests, brittle release processes,
Additional details
- ABOUT THE TEAM We’re hiring software engineers to make OpenAI’s networking teams more productive.
- This role will be embedded with OpenAI’s networking team: making it faster, safer, and easier for engineers to build, test, validate, and ship changes across multi-server, networked, and hardware-adjacent environments. In this role
- experience teams while staying deeply embedded with the networking engineers closest to the systems You might thrive in this role if: - You are motivated by helping other engineers move faster and with more confidence - You have