Software Engineer, Infrastructure, Consumer Devices - Remote Eligible

Cloud Infrastructure Engineer

We are seeking a Cloud Infrastructure Engineer to help design and evolve the platforms that power OpenAI's products.

In this role, you will be a hands-on technical leader, driving the architecture, scalability, and reliability of critical infrastructure systems. You will help define how we build and operate infrastructure at the next order of magnitude, while influencing technical direction across teams.

This role is both deeply technical and highly strategic, requiring strong ownership, sound judgment, and the ability to partner effectively across engineering, product, and research organizations.

In this role, you will:

• Design and build scalable, reliable, and secure infrastructure platforms that power OpenAI products
• Evolve cloud infrastructure abstractions that enable rapid product development across teams
• Architect systems to support significant growth, performance, and operational complexity
• Improve server orchestration, networking, and distributed systems reliability
• Influence technical direction and infrastructure strategy across multiple teams
• Partner closely with product, research, and engineering teams to align infrastructure with evolving needs
• Own operational excellence, including participation in on-call rotations and incident response
• Mentor engineers and raise the overall technical bar of the organization
• Contribute to a culture of high ownership, low ego, and thoughtful collaboration

You might thrive in this role if you:

• Have 8+ years of experience building and operating large-scale infrastructure systems
• Have deep expertise in Kubernetes and container orchestration at scale
• Have strong experience designing cloud abstractions and platform infrastructure (AWS, GCP, Azure, or similar)
• Have a proven track record of leading complex technical initiatives across teams
• Have experience operating highly reliable, secure, and scalable distributed systems
• Have strong systems thinking with the ability to balance velocity, reliability, and simplicity
• Are comfortable operating in ambiguous, fast-moving environments
• Have experience mentoring engineers and influencing technical direction
• Have a passion for building infrastructure that enables impactful products

Why This Role Matters

This role is critical to enabling OpenAI to scale its products and infrastructure to the next level. You will help define how we build and operate the systems that power some of the most widely used AI products in the world.

Your work will directly impact the reliability, scalability, and velocity of OpenAI's technology—helping bring advanced AI capabilities to millions of users safely and effectively.

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.

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.