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Software Engineer, Database Systems

OpenAI · Applied AI

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

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What the posting covers

About the Team

The Database Systems team specializes in high-performance distributed databases. Our team built Rockset, the real-time search, analytics, and vector database that powers all vector search and retrieval augmented generation (RAG) at OpenAI. In addition to…

In this role you will

Design, build, and operate high-performance distributed systems Identify and resolve performance bottlenecks to scale infrastructure to the next order of magnitude Define long-term technical direction and guide system evolution Collaborate with product,…

You might thrive in this role if you

Have significant experience building, scaling, and optimizing distributed systems at scale Are curious about database internals, storage engines, or low-latency query systems Enjoy debugging challenging performance issues in complex, high-throughput systems…

Qualifications

4+ years of relevant industry experience, with 2+ years leading large scale, complex projects or teams as an engineer or tech lead Experience with distributed systems at scale, with a strong focus on performance, reliability, and scalability Strong…

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…