Software Engineer, Compute - Storage

OpenAI is an AI research and deployment company dedicated to ensuring that general-purpose artificial intelligence benefits all of humanity. The role involves building and operating storage services that underpin OpenAI’s research infrastructure, focusing on object storage systems, cross-region data movement, and lifecycle management capabilities.

Responsibilities:

• Build and operate storage services that underpin OpenAI’s research infrastructure
• Develop object storage systems across cloud and in-house environments
• Build systems for cross-region data movement, replication, and recovery
• Design lifecycle management capabilities that keep data durable, available, and cost-effective
• Evolve the federation layer that unifies multiple backend systems behind a simple interface
• Improve performance, reliability, and operational excellence across the platform
• Collaborate closely with researchers and infrastructure teams to support rapidly evolving workloads

Requirements:

• Have experience building or operating distributed systems in production
• Have worked on storage infrastructure, object stores, distributed filesystems, or other data-intensive backend systems
• Enjoy owning infrastructure end to end, including debugging and long-term reliability improvements
• Write strong production code, ideally in Rust or another systems-oriented language
• Are comfortable working with Kubernetes-based systems
• Have experience with tools such as Terraform, Grafana, or similar infrastructure and observability tooling