Software Engineer, Internal Applications - Enterprise
About the Team OpenAI’s Applications Engineering team engineers, owns, and evolves OpenAI’s core productivity ecosystem—not simply as custodians of SaaS solutions, but by building custom tools, integrations, and automation that solve problems off-the-shelf software cannot. With a company-wide lens and deep technical ex
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Software Engineer, Internal Applications - Enterprise 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 OpenAI’s Applications Engineering team engineers, owns, and evolves OpenAI’s core productivity ecosystem—not simply as custodians of SaaS solutions, but by building custom tools, integrations, and automation that solve problems off-the-shelf software cannot. With a company-wide lens and deep technical ex
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- Design, build, implement, and maintain secure, scalable, and performant workforce technology infrastructure, automation workflows, and bespoke tooling that improves the OpenAI employee experience.
- Deliver critical IT efficiencies and automation through both bespoke software development and first-party tooling to enhance technology service delivery.
- Employ modern Infrastructure-as-Code (IaC) methodologies, developing GitOps-driven solutions to manage technology workflows at scale.
- Build and maintain CI/CD pipelines for corporate infrastructure, deploying to progressively tested environments across multiple clouds (Azure, AWS, GCP).
- Create scalable internal tools and dashboards to optimize workflows and improve visibility into engineering operations.
- Design and manage internal integrations, including Slack bots and workflow automation solutions.
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