OpenAI is looking for a Backend Software Engineer to build and operate the systems that make Connectors dependable at global scale. In this infrastructure-focused role, you’ll design the control plane, reliability foundations, and operational tooling that power connector execution.
What You'll Do
- Design and operate the infrastructure that powers connector sync, indexing, and retrieval at scale.
- Build the control plane primitives for connectors, including rollout controls, configuration management, and kill switches.
- Own reliability and operational excellence through SLOs, monitoring, incident response, and capacity planning.
- Create guardrails for safe multi-tenant execution, including isolation boundaries, secrets handling, and rate limits.
- Partner with security and compliance teams to ensure enterprise requirements are met.
- Improve developer velocity via internal tooling for local dev workflows, canary environments, and observability.
What We're Looking For
- 5+ years of professional engineering experience in infra, SRE, or platform roles.
- Strong distributed systems fundamentals and production instincts for availability, latency, and resilience.
- Experience building and operating services with meaningful uptime and scale requirements.
- Proficiency in one or more backend languages and comfort working close to systems concerns.
- Deep familiarity with observability, incident management, and reliability engineering practices.
- Ability to navigate ambiguous problem spaces and push pragmatic solutions into production.
Nice to Have
- Interest in AI/ML.
Team & Environment
You will be part of the Connectors Platform team.
We are an equal opportunity employer, and we do not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, color, national origin, sex, sexual orientation, age, veteran status, disability, genetic information, or other applicable legally protected characteristic.
