Software Engineer, Productivity - Networking

📋 Description

• Improve development workflows for engineers building and operating OpenAI’s networking systems
• Design and improve continuous deployment, release, and validation pipelines
• Build and maintain test harnesses for multi-server, networked, and hardware-backed environments
• Improve iteration speed across C++, Python, and build-system-heavy codebases
• Partner with engineers to identify friction in CI, testing, debugging, and deployment workflows
• Drive testing and reliability strategy for infrastructure components that support large-scale training and inference workloads

🎯 Requirements

• Experience with CI/CD, release pipelines, testing infrastructure, or build systems
• Proficiency with C++ and Python; build tools like CMake, Bazel, or Blaze
• Experience building test harnesses, automation, and workflow improvements for complex systems
• Motivated to help other engineers move faster and with confidence
• Self-directed and comfortable operating with ambiguity in a high-context infrastructure environment
• Pragmatic and able to balance high standards with forward progress
• Comfortable moving between languages/environments and learning new domains as needed