Software Engineer, Habitat (online Data)

OpenAI

Seattle, United States
Distributed systems
High-qps
Latency-sensitive workloads
You’ll work on the core online database platform behind OpenAI’s products, building and operating Habitat services that handle high-QPS, latency-sensitive workloads across regions

Job Summary

  • You’ll work on the core online database platform behind OpenAI’s products, building and operating Habitat services that handle high-QPS, latency-sensitive workloads across regions.
  • You’ll partner closely with internal platform and product teams to ship safe, reliable systems, then push them to be faster and more cost-efficient through better caching, routing, observability, and operational tooling.
  • This is a critical role for engineers who like owning hard distributed-systems problems end to end and sweating the details from p99 latency to production operations at massive scale.

Matching Summary

You’ll work on the core online database platform behind OpenAI’s products, building and operating Habitat services that handle high-QPS, latency-sensitive workloads across regions.

Skills & Requirements

Must-have

  • distributed systems
  • high-QPS
  • latency-sensitive workloads
  • end-to-end ownership
  • production operations at massive scale
  • developer experience
  • Rust and/or Python

Nice-to-have

  • sweating the details
  • raising the bar on reliability
  • aggressive performance improvement
  • pragmatic solutions
  • ambiguous problems end to end

Key Requirements

  • 8+ years of industry experience
  • 3+ years leading large-scale projects
  • Experience with databases, caching, routing, CDC, or indexing
  • Deep experience with tail latency and global performance optimization
  • Experience designing platform APIs
  • Experience with multi-region systems

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Not specified

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