Software Engineer, Observability

OpenAI · Applied AI

Location: San Francisco, California, United States · New York, New York, United States · Mountain View, California, United States
Metro: San Francisco Bay Area, New York City
Workplace: Unspecified
Level: Unspecified
Type: Full-time
Pay: $266K–$445K/yr (published by employer)
Posted: 8 months ago
Source: Ashby

What the posting covers

About the company

Join the engineering teams that bring OpenAI’s ideas safely to the world!! The Applied Engineering team works across research, engineering, product, and design to bring OpenAI’s technology to consumers and businesses. We seek to learn from deployment and…

About the Role

We’re building the observability product for OpenAI—from scalable infrastructure to a rich, AI-powered UI. Our systems ingest over petabytes of logs and billions of time series metrics across our fleet. We're now layering intelligence on top—think agents that…

What You’ll Do

Own core observability infrastructure, including distributed logging, time series, and trace storage Build AI-native tools that help engineers detect, understand, and resolve issues autonomously. Contribute to UI experiences like dashboards, notebooking, or…

You Might Be a Fit If You

Have operated large-scale distributed systems in production. ( especially logging systems or some other time series databases) Thrive in ambiguous environments and roll up your sleeves to solve unscoped problems. Have full-stack chops or product…

Why This Team

We’re both an infra and product team—building a real AI application for internal use. Your work will directly power the reliability of GPT-based products at massive scale. You'll help define what "AI-powered observability" looks like at one of the world’s…

About 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…

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