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# Software Engineer, Observability

- **Company:** OpenAI Inc.
- **Location:** Mountain View, CA, United States
- **Contract:** Permanent contract
- **Skills:** Artificial Intelligence, Amazon Web Services, Software Debugging, Distributed Systems, OpenAI, Prometheus, Data Logging, Time Series Databases, Backend, Kubernetes
- **Published:** November 7, 2026
- **Apply:** https://www.juju.com/job/28_25197_afc33344868af43d609c367d718ef4a0

## About the Role

* Have operated large-scale distributed systems in production. ( especially logging systems or some other time series databases)
 * Thrive in ambiguous environments and roll up your sleeves to solve unscoped problems.
 * Have full-stack chops or product sensibilities-you're excited to build real tools people use.
 * Have strong fundamentals in systems, networking, and cloud infra (Kubernetes, AWS, etc).
 * Bonus: built or contributed to observability systems (e.g. Prometheus, OpenTelemetry, etc).

## Description

We're building the observability product for OpenAI-from scalable infrastructure to a rich, AI-powered UI. Our systems ingest over petabytes of logs and billions of time series metrics across our fleet. We're now layering intelligence on top-think agents that summarize SEVs, auto-generate dashboards, or help engineers debug through notebook-like UIs.

We're hiring software engineers across the stack-infra, backend, and product. You'll join a small, gritty team building both foundational infra and novel internal tools to make OpenAI's production systems reliable, performant, and observable.

What You'll Do

 * Own core observability infrastructure, including distributed logging, time series, and trace storage
 * Build AI-native tools that help engineers detect, understand, and resolve issues autonomously.
 * Contribute to UI experiences like dashboards, notebooking, or interactive debugging
 * Collaborate closely with engineers, researchers, user ops, and other teams across the company to build the next generation observability product