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Infrastructure Engineer – Data Acquisition
| Company | OpenAI |
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| Location | San Francisco, CA, USA |
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| Salary | $255000 – $405000 |
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| Type | Full-Time |
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| Degrees | |
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| Experience Level | Junior, Mid Level |
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Requirements
- Proven experience in an infrastructure backend role, ideally in a fast-paced environment
- Comfort with at least one major cloud platform and its associated tooling
- Familiarity with containerization and orchestration technologies (Kubernetes or similar)
- Some background with IaC (e.g., Terraform, CloudFormation)
- Hands-on experience with monitoring/observability stacks
- Strong scripting/coding ability to build and automate solutions (your language of choice)
- Ability to balance scrappiness and speed with robust design when needed
- Effective communication and collaboration skills; you enjoy enabling others
Responsibilities
- Scale and maintain our data pipelines and compute clusters as DAQ grows by large multiples in the next year
- Build out ‘just enough’ observability (metrics, logs, tracing) to support developer troubleshooting and performance insights
- Help design on-call processes for the infra we own, balancing developer velocity with service reliability
- Collaborate directly with DAQ teams on deployment approaches, ephemeral or ad hoc workloads, network/security integrations, and more
- Prototype and implement solutions for caching, load balancing, job scheduling, and cluster scaling, with an emphasis on iteration speed
- Improve developer productivity by reducing friction—through better tooling, automated provisioning, and simplified environment setups
- Adopt and integrate Infrastructure-as-Code (IaC), CI, and security best practices from other teams, tailoring them to DAQ’s dynamic needs
Preferred Qualifications
No preferred qualifications provided.
