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Software Engineer, Traffic Infrastructure

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Software Engineer, Traffic Infrastructure is a still-open role at OpenAI on Jobrow. Location: On-site · San Francisco · California · United States. Listed pay: $266k–$445k. Sourced from the company's public Ashby board. First seen 1 hour ago; last confirmed 1 hour ago. Apply on the employer ATS — Jobrow is not the employer.

Pay
$266k–$445k
Workplace
On-site
Location
San Francisco · California · United States
First seen
1 hour ago
Last seen
1 hour ago
Board
Ashby
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About this role

ABOUT THE TEAM The Cloud Infrastructure team builds and operates the infrastructure behind OpenAI’s products, including ChatGPT and the API.

  • Function: Infrastructure
  • Seniority: mid
  • kubernetes

Location & pay

On-site · San Francisco · California · United States Listed pay on Jobrow: $266k–$445k.

Source

Jobrow reads the public Ashby board for OpenAI. First seen 1 hour ago; last seen 1 hour ago. We are not the employer — apply only on the company ATS.

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ABOUT THE TEAM The Cloud Infrastructure team builds and operates the infrastructure behind OpenAI’s products, including ChatGPT and the API. Within Cloud Infrastructure, the Traffic team owns how traffic enters our cloud environments, moves between services, clusters, and regions, and reaches external dependencies. Our work spans cloud networking, Kubernetes networking, ingress and egress gateways, proxies, load balancing, and traffic steering. We build the systems, controls, and observability that make these paths reliable, secure, efficient, and straightforward for other engineering teams to use.   ABOUT THE ROLE You’ll build and operate the networking and traffic infrastructure that connects OpenAI’s products and services across clouds and regions. The team’s work spans L3, L4, and L7—from IP connectivity, NAT, and transport behavior to service proxies and application request routing. You’ll bring depth in part of this stack and curiosity about how the whole path works. Projects may include building gateways and control planes, improving cross-region connectivity, diagnosing packet loss or connection exhaustion, and making routing changes safer and easier to operate. This role combines software engineering with production ownership. You’ll turn ambiguous networking problems into durable improvements, working closely with service owners, infrastructure teams, Security, and cloud providers. This role is based in San Francisco, CA or Seattle, WA.   IN THIS ROLE, YOU WILL: - Design, build, and operate ingress, egress, and service-to-service connectivity across clusters, regions, and clouds. - Develop proxies, gateways, controllers, and automation for routing, load balancing, failover, and traffic management. - Build and evolve cloud networking infrastructure, including private connectivity, NAT, and network isolation. - Diagnose failures and performance bottlenecks across application, proxy, transport, and cloud networking layers; work with cloud providers when issues extend into their infrastructure. - Build telemetry and diagnostic tools that explain traffic paths, identify failing components, and help engineers take effective action. - Partner with Security to implement and validate traffic-path protections, including secure service communication, access controls, egress restrictions, and DDoS defenses. - Improve latency, throughput, availability, and network efficiency through measurement, testing, and careful production rollou

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