Software Engineer, Infrastructure - Analytics Platform

Job summary

Responsibilities

We’re looking for a hands-on experienced software engineer who can take ownership of a critical system and drive it from problem definition through production adoption.

• Own critical systems across architecture, implementation, integrations, deployment, monitoring, adoption, and whatever else is required to make them useful.
• Design, build, and operate the ingestion, storage, retrieval, and query systems behind research analytics at OpenAI.
• Build platforms for analyzing both structured metrics and unstructured research data, including samples, traces, evaluation results, and model-behavior data.
• Reason below typical service abstractions about algorithms, data structures, concurrency, storage layout, distributed systems, query performance, and failure modes.
• Make architectural tradeoffs across ingestion-time processing, data models, storage formats, indexing, query execution, caching, and visualization performance.

Tech stack

• Rust
• C++