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Senior Software Engineer, Observability

OpenAI

Join the Engineering Teams at OpenAI

OpenAI is seeking a Senior Software Engineer specializing in Observability to join our dynamic engineering team. This role is crucial in ensuring the observability, reliability, scalability, and performance of our systems as we continue to expand. You will be at the forefront of maintaining and enhancing the stability, scalability, and performance of our rapidly evolving infrastructure.

About the Role

As OpenAI continues to grow, we are looking for experienced, problem-solving engineers to ensure our systems scale. Our success depends on our ability to quickly iterate on products while also ensuring that they are performant and reliable.

You will work in a deeply iterative, collaborative, fast-paced environment to bring our technology to millions of users around the world, and ensure it’s delivered with safety and reliability in mind.

Key Responsibilities

  • Develop and maintain systems for effective monitoring, logging, and tracing of software applications.
  • Choose appropriate tools and technologies, set up dashboards, and ensure the scalability and reliability of the observability infrastructure.
  • Develop and integrate tools for logging, monitoring, and alerting to enhance visibility into system performance.
  • Collaborate with different engineering teams to integrate observability practices into their workflows.
  • Regularly analyze system performance and identify areas for improvement.
  • Stay up-to-date with the latest trends in observability, logging, monitoring, and cloud technologies.
  • Participate in strategic planning for the technology roadmap, including scalability, cost-effectiveness, and risk management considerations related to observability infrastructure.
  • Create comprehensive documentation for observability systems and processes.

Qualifications

  • Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, or a related field (or equivalent work experience).
  • Proven proficiency in monitoring tools (e.g., DataDog, Prometheus, Grafana, ELK stack) and cloud platforms (e.g., AWS, Azure, GCP).
  • Strong background in software engineering, with expertise in relevant programming languages (like Python, Java, Go) and cloud platforms.
  • Experience with containerization and orchestration technologies (e.g., Docker, Kubernetes).
  • Excellent communication skills are crucial for this role.
  • Experience with microservices architecture and service mesh technologies.
  • Strong understanding of distributed systems, networking, and database technologies.

Why OpenAI?

OpenAI is an AI research and deployment company dedicated to ensuring that general-purpose artificial intelligence benefits all of humanity. We push the boundaries of the capabilities of AI systems and seek to safely deploy them to the world through our products. AI is an extremely powerful tool that must be created with safety and human needs at its core.

We are committed to providing reasonable accommodations to applicants with disabilities and fostering a diverse, equitable, and inclusive culture.

This role is exclusively based in our San Francisco HQ. We offer relocation assistance to new employees.

Benefits
Extracted with AI

  • Relocation assistance
  • Diversity and inclusion initiatives

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