Software Engineer, Agent Platform at OpenAI · San Francisco, CA · Joined
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Software Engineer, Agent Platform
OpenAI · San Francisco, CA · Just now · 0 applicants
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Pay
Pay not listed
Workplace
Hybrid
Job type
Full-time
Level
Middle
Team: Agent Platform · Source: jobright · Posted by joined-scrapper
About the role
OpenAI is looking for a Mid-Level Software Engineer to build and scale the services, APIs, and orchestration systems behind its agent platform, focusing on reliability, security, and performance. The role involves working across large-scale backend and cloud infrastructure to evolve prototypes into production-grade systems.
What you’ll do
Build and scale services, APIs, orchestration systems, and integrations for agentic products
Improve platform reliability, performance, and efficiency
Turn early prototypes into reliable services and evolve them as usage grows
Collaborate across service boundaries to solve end-to-end problems
Consider security, performance, and long-term maintainability
Work on secure execution environments and agent workloads in production
What you’ll need
Experience building large-scale backend services, distributed systems, or cloud infrastructure
Experience with cloud platforms, containers, orchestration systems, or infrastructure-as-code tools such as Terraform
Strong understanding of system performance, concurrency, failure modes, and resource management
Comfortable moving quickly through ambiguous problems
Enjoy building shared platforms and APIs
Comfortable working across service boundaries and collaborating with teams
Original job description
OpenAI builds production systems that enable AI agents to execute code, use tools, and interact with software reliably and securely. The Software Engineer builds and scales services, APIs, orchestration systems, and integrations for agentic products, while improving platform reliability, performance, and efficiency.We're looking for engineers with…