Software Engineer, ChatGPT Infrastructure
About the Team ChatGPT is a rapidly evolving system: new capabilities ship continuously, product surfaces change quickly, and usage patterns shift week-to-week. Supporting that pace requires infrastructure that can handle real production constraints—high concurrency, unpredictable traffic patterns, complex dependency g
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Software Engineer, ChatGPT Infrastructure at OpenAI in San Francisco. UpJobz keeps this listing high-signal for applicants targeting serious high-tech roles across the United States, Canada, and Mexico. About the Team ChatGPT is a rapidly evolving system: new capabilities ship continuously, product surfaces change quickly, and usage patterns shift week-to-week. Supporting that pace requires infrastructure that can handle real production constraints—high concurrency, unpredictable traffic patterns, complex dependency g
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- Build and evolve infrastructure platforms used by many engineers and services.
- Translate real-world constraints into clean abstractions: simple APIs, enforceable contracts, safe defaults.
- Drive improvements in reliability and performance through principled design, measurement, and iterative hardening.
- Partner with engineering and product teams to identify systemic pain points and develop reusable solutions.
- Own outcomes end-to-end: design → implementation → rollout → operational maturity.
- Experience building and operating large-scale distributed systems in production (high throughput, concurrency, and failure handling).
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- Experience building and operating large-scale distributed systems in production (high throughput, concurrency, and failure handling).
- Strong fundamentals in systems design, including caching, consistency, queueing/backpressure, and resilient dependency management.
- Ability to reason about performance (latency distributions, tail behavior, bottlenecks) and translate analysis into concrete engineering work.
- Track record of building platforms or shared infrastructure that improves velocity and correctness for other teams.
- Excellent communication and collaboration skills—aligning on interfaces, navigating tradeoffs, and driving cross-team execution.
- Experience designing paved roads / golden paths (frameworks, libraries, self-serve tooling) that shape engineering behavior at scale.
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