Software Engineer, Observability
OpenAISan Francisco, California, United States
Posted February 19, 2026
Full Time
About the Company
OpenAI is an AI research and deployment company dedicated to ensuring that general-purpose artificial intelligence benefits all of humanity.
Job Description
Join the engineering teams that bring OpenAI's ideas safely to the world. We're building the observability product for OpenAI, from scalable infrastructure to a rich, AI-powered UI. You'll join a small, gritty team building both foundational infra and novel internal tools to make OpenAI's production systems reliable, performant, and observable.
Requirements
- Operated large-scale distributed systems in production
- Full-stack chops or product sensibilities
- Strong fundamentals in systems, networking, and cloud infra (Kubernetes, AWS, etc)
- Bonus: built or contributed to observability systems (e.g. Prometheus, OpenTelemetry, etc)
Benefits
- Equal Opportunity Employer
- Affirmative Action and Equal Employment Opportunity Policy Statement
- Background checks for applicants will be administered in accordance with applicable law
- Reasonable accommodations to applicants with disabilities