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# Software Engineer

- **Company:** OpenAI Inc.
- **Location:** United States
- **Contract:** Internship / Graduate position
- **Skills:** Application Programming Interfaces (APIs), Static Program Analysis, Encodings, Computer Networks, Domain Name System (DNS), Network Layer, Name Server, Systems Development Life Cycle, Reliability Engineering, TypeScript, Load Balancing, Rate Limiting, Kubernetes, Low Latency, Cloudflare
- **Published:** September 4, 2026
- **Apply:** https://startup.jobs/software-engineer-edge-withpersona-com-8134176

## About the Role

* Experience building and shipping production services in a polyglot environment (Go, TypeScript, or similar). You should enjoy the pros/cons of different languages - a zealot is unlikely to enjoy working in our garden
 * Experience diagnosing production issues at the network layer, including understanding how proxies and load balancers can obscure the real source of a problem. You should enjoy deep, methodical investigatory work - but also have the chops to quickly take on triage and solutioning should an emergency arise
 * Kubernetes networking in practice: ingress controllers, DNS, network policies, not just running workloads
 * Manages infrastructure as code in practice, not just in principle. Change safety and governance should be a feature not a bug - and you enjoy designing those processes so they appear low-friction while having real teeth
 * Experience building internal platforms or tools with a track record of driving adoption across engineering teams. We love OSS and hope to continue contributing, but we also need to unblock ourselves today when external tools fall short.

## Description

* Own edge networking configuration: routing, WAF policy, rate limiting, certificate management, driving toward a model where engineers ship traffic changes without waiting on infra. We use Cloudflare extensively but not exclusively.
 * Evolve the ingress layer (controllers, lifecycle, policy, Ingress API) so inbound traffic is reliable, observable, and self-service
 * Manage DNS across internal clusters and external zones so name resolution is invisible by design
 * Build network-layer observability: latency, error rates, routing visibility that surfaces problems before they become incidents
 * Support Persona's regional expansion by extending networking into new geographies and ensuring regional expansion is scalable, performant, and maintainable
 * Help define the team's practices and technical standards. This team is new, and you'll shape what it looks like - from SDLC, usage of AI tooling, static analysis, chaos engineering, and usage of simulation. We are serious about encoding top-quality engineering practices into the team's DNA - and you will be core to their development.


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