OpenAI

Senior Staff Software Engineer, Engineering Acceleration | Consumer Devices

OpenAI$150K — $200K *
Consumer Technology
8 - 10 years of experience
Job Overview by Ladders

Qualifications

  • 10+ years of software engineering experience with a focus on developer productivity and CI/CD.
  • 5+ years of experience designing and operating robust CI/CD pipelines and software delivery infrastructure.
  • Proven success in building platform features and workflow improvements that enhance engineering velocity.
  • Experience in making architectural decisions for internal platforms, balancing various trade-offs.
  • Working knowledge of secure software delivery practices including access controls and auditability.

Responsibilities

  • Design, build, and operate CI/CD systems and delivery pipelines for device and cloud software.
  • Lead the architecture of internal platform capabilities, focusing on build, test, deployment, and workflow automation.
  • Make technical decisions on platform design and operational needs based on the team's stage and scale.
  • Improve developer productivity by reducing feedback loops in various engineering workflows.
  • Create self-serve workflows that streamline common engineering tasks and reduce manual effort.
  • Utilize AI-native tooling to enhance engineering workflows and developer output quality.
  • Build secure platform capabilities with a focus on access control and credential handling.

Benefits

  • Relocation assistance for new employees.
  • Hybrid work model: four days in the office per week.
  • Opportunity to engage in innovative technology and CI/CD systems.
  • Contribute to impactful decisions affecting engineering velocity and software quality.
Full Job Description
About the Role
The Engineering Acceleration-focused engineer on the Consumer Device Infrastructure team builds the CI/CD systems, developer workflows, and internal platform capabilities that help engineers develop, test, ship, and debug software across device and cloud surfaces.

This is a highly hands-on senior engineering role focused on CI/CD, software build and deployment pipelines, and developer productivity. You will design and build the technical foundations that improve engineering velocity, reduce toil, and increase software quality. You will also make pragmatic architecture and platform decisions based on the organization's stage, scaling needs, and security requirements.

We're looking for an engineer with deep experience in developer productivity and CI/CD who enjoys building robust internal platforms, improving day-to-day engineering workflows, and creating secure, reliable systems that other engineers depend on.

This role is based in San Francisco, CA. We use a hybrid work model of four days in the office per week and offer relocation assistance to new employees.

In this role, you will:
  • Design, build, and operate CI/CD systems and software delivery pipelines for software that runs both on device and in the cloud.
  • Lead the design and architecture of internal platform capabilities across build, test, deployment, workflow automation, and developer tooling.
  • Make hands-on technical decisions about platform design, abstraction boundaries, and system tradeoffs based on the team's current stage, scale, and operational needs.
  • Improve developer productivity by shortening feedback loops across build, test, debugging, environment setup, and release-adjacent workflows.
  • Build self-serve paved-road workflows that reduce manual effort and make common engineering tasks fast, reliable, and easy to adopt.
  • Use AI-native tooling and automation to improve engineering workflows, failure triage, and developer output quality.
  • Build secure-by-default platform capabilities, including access controls, secrets and credential handling, artifact permissions, auditability, and policy enforcement in software delivery workflows.
  • Partner closely with product, systems, release, quality, and infrastructure teams to understand pain points and turn them into durable platform improvements.
  • Define and track metrics for platform health and engineering effectiveness, including build times, queue times, failure rates, flaky failures, and deployment lead time.
  • Guide engineering teams on pragmatic observability, reliability, and scalability choices for the systems they build.
  • Participate in the on-call rotation for the systems owned by the team.


You might thrive in this role if you:
  • Have 10+ years of software engineering experience, including 5+ years building developer productivity, CI/CD, internal platform, or engineering systems.
  • Have deep experience designing and operating robust CI/CD pipelines, build systems, and software delivery infrastructure for complex products.
  • Have a strong track record of personally building platform features and workflow improvements that materially increased engineering velocity, reliability, or developer experience.
  • Have experience making architectural decisions for internal platforms, including when to standardize, when to abstract, and when to keep systems simple.
  • Have experience adapting technical decisions to the maturity and scaling stage of an organization, balancing speed, reliability, maintainability, and adoption.
  • Have working knowledge of secure software delivery practices such as least-privilege access, secrets management, policy enforcement, auditability, or software supply chain hardening.
  • Have strong empathy for the tools, workflows, and frustrations that create toil or slow engineering teams down.
  • Are comfortable operating in ambiguous, fast-changing environments and bringing structure where needed.
  • Communicate clearly and work effectively across teams with different priorities, constraints, and technical needs.


Technical Context
At the heart of our infrastructure is a large-scale deployment of CPU/GPU nodes running in Kubernetes clusters across regions. We build secure systems that support software running on device and in the cloud. Some core technologies we work with include Terraform, Buildkite, Bazel, Postgres, Cosmos DB, Kafka, and more.

About OpenAI

OpenAI is an artificial intelligence research laboratory consisting of the for-profit corporation OpenAI LP and its parent company, the non-profit OpenAI Inc. The company was founded in 2015 by a group of technology leaders, including Elon Musk, Sam Altman, Greg Brockman, Ilya Sutskever, and John Schulman. OpenAI's mission is to develop and promote friendly AI for the betterment of humanity. The company has developed a number of cutting-edge AI technologies, including GPT-3, a language processing system that can generate human-like text. OpenAI has received funding from a number of high-profile investors, including LinkedIn co-founder Reid Hoffman and venture capitalist Peter Thiel.
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