Software Engineer, Product Velocity

OpenAI

. Reduce local development startup and iteration latency for ChatGPT engineers .

Posted 9/28/2026full-timeSan Francisco • California • United StatesMid-LevelSenior💰 $347,000 - $445,000 per yearWebsite

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Core Competencies

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Demonstrates expertise in large-scale developer infrastructure, CI/CD, and deployment systems, with a focus on improving build performance and developer experience. Proficient in debugging distributed systems and implementing automation to enhance production safety and efficiency.

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Large-Scale Developer InfrastructureCI/CD SystemsBazelKubernetesPython/TypeScript Services

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Hard Skills

Build SystemsDeployment SystemsDebuggingPolicy-Backed AutomationRemote ExecutionCache ReproducibilityCI Quarantine DesignProgressive DeliveryAgent-Assisted WorkflowsMetrics Establishment

Soft Skills

Cross-Team CommunicationProblem-Solving

Tools & Technologies

BuildkiteGitHub WorkflowsTemporalMonorepo Tooling

Industry Keywords

Production ReliabilityDeveloper ExperienceObservabilityAutomationSecurity and Access-Control

Tech Stack

Tools & technologies

Distributed SystemsKubernetesNode.jsPythonTypeScript

About the role

Key responsibilities & impact

Reduce local development startup and iteration latency for ChatGPT engineers
Improve Bazel and build performance for local machines, devboxes, and CI, including cache effectiveness, reproducibility, disk usage, remote cache behavior, and observability into invalidations
Improve CI reliability and merge throughput by reducing unrelated failures, tail latency, flaky or mis-owned tests, quarantine friction, and repeated manual reruns
Build agents that help pull requests make forward progress through rebasing, conflict resolution, CI triage, safe reruns, owner routing, and blocker identification
Make deploy pipelines more self-healing when transient alerts, known-bad clusters, recovered synthetics, stale release candidates, or noisy gates do not require human babysitting
Improve deploy observability so engineers can identify change status, blockers, signal trustworthiness, and ownership of next actions
Establish metrics for commit-to-production latency, deploy-window throughput, CI tail latency, local bootup time, failure rates, manual interventions, false-positive gates, and developer-reported pain
Diagnose distributed systems and developer workflow failures
Build reliable automation and negotiate ownership across teams
Balance development velocity with production safety

Requirements

What you’ll need

Strong experience with large-scale developer infrastructure, build systems, CI/CD, deployment systems, or production reliability
Ability to debug across local machines, devboxes, remote caches, monorepos, service dependencies, auth systems, and distributed deploy pipelines
Comfortable with Bazel, Buildkite, Kubernetes, Temporal, Python/TypeScript services, GitHub workflows, and large monorepo tooling, or able to ramp quickly on equivalents
Ability to replace repeated manual intervention with policy-backed automation while preserving production safety
Ability to communicate across teams and turn ambiguous reports into crisp owners, hypotheses, metrics, and shipped fixes
Experience improving developer experience in a very large monorepo (nice to have)
Experience with remote execution, remote caching, hermetic builds, or cache reproducibility (nice to have)
Experience designing CI quarantine, test ownership, merge queue, or auto-revert systems (nice to have)
Experience with progressive delivery, canary/preview/stable deploy pipelines, synthetics, alert quality, and deploy-manager style workflows (nice to have)
Experience building agent-assisted developer workflows (nice to have)
Familiarity with security and access-control constraints around secrets, internal auth, VPN/exit-node networking, and local development (nice to have)
Authorization to work in the country where the job is located
Ability to work from a US office three days per week

Benefits

Comp & perks

Equity
Performance-related bonus(es) for eligible employees
Medical, dental, and vision insurance for you and your family, with employer contributions to Health Savings Accounts
Pre-tax accounts for Health FSA, Dependent Care FSA, and commuter expenses (parking and transit)
401(k) retirement plan with employer match
Paid parental leave (up to 24 weeks for birth parents and 20 weeks for non-birthing parents)
Paid medical and caregiver leave (up to 8 weeks)
Flexible PTO for exempt employees and up to 15 days annually for non-exempt employees
13+ paid company holidays
Multiple paid coordinated company office closures throughout the year for focus and recharge
Paid sick or safe time (1 hour per 30 hours worked, or more, as required by applicable state or local law)
Mental health and wellness support
Employer-paid basic life and disability coverage
Annual learning and development stipend
Daily meals in our offices, and meal delivery credits as eligible
Relocation support for eligible employees
Charitable donation matching
Wellness stipends
Immigration and sponsorship support may be provided based on individual circumstances