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# Software Engineer, Infrastructure - Analytics Platform

- **Company:** OpenAI Inc.
- **Location:** San Francisco, CA, United States
- **Salary:** $230,000.0
- **Contract:** Permanent contract
- **Skills:** Data Analysis, Systems Engineering, C++ (Programming Language), Profiling, Serialization, Software Debugging, Distributed Data Store, Distributed Systems, Data Logging, Backend, Kubernetes, Data Management, Vertica
- **Published:** November 7, 2026
- **Apply:** https://www.juju.com/job/28_25196_2a607ccff5feac09129b5499512f28ea

## About the Role

* A track record of owning operationally critical systems end to end and delivering outcomes in ambiguous environments.
 * Strong hands-on experience building performance-sensitive backend systems in Rust or C++.
 * Comfort working below typical service abstractions, including concurrency, async execution, memory behavior, serialization, I/O, networking, profiling, and failure analysis.
 * Experience designing, building, or operating distributed systems or distributed databases at meaningful scale.
 * Preferably, experience with ClickHouse-like systems or infrastructure for analytics, telemetry, logging, search, ingestion, storage, or query execution.
 * Hands-on experience operating production-critical systems, including incidents, observability, rollout safety, and recurrence prevention.
 * Strong judgment in balancing engineering quality, speed, risk, and business impact.
 * A habit of shipping practical first versions and improving them through production feedback.

## Description

We're looking for a staff-level software engineer to own production-critical infrastructure end to end.

This role is centered on backend / systems engineering, with emphasis on low-level performance, distributed systems, and hands-on operation of critical services at scale. You'll take ambiguous problems, turn them into concrete plans, ship pragmatic solutions quickly, and improve them through production feedback and iteration.

This is not a general Python backend role. We're specifically looking for strong systems experience in Rust or C++, especially in performance-sensitive infrastructure.

This role is based in San Francisco, CA. We use a hybrid work model of 3 days in the office per week and offer relocation assistance to new employees.

In this role, you will:

 * Own critical infrastructure across design, implementation, rollout, operation, and iteration.
 * Build and operate performant backend systems in Rust or C++ that support core research workflows.
 * Design and improve distributed data and serving systems, including tradeoffs around partitioning, replication, consistency, retries, backpressure, and failure isolation.
 * Debug real production bottlenecks across latency, throughput, contention, hot spots, and overload behavior.
 * Operate business-critical services through on-call, incidents, postmortems, observability, rollout safety, and zero-downtime migrations.
 * Improve reliability of services running on Kubernetes, including resource tuning and failure handling.
 * Partner closely with engineers and researchers to deliver fast, reliable, useful systems.
 * Raise the bar through strong technical judgment, ownership, and follow-through.