Software Engineer, Infranomics

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OpenAI
Full time
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USA
10/30/2026
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San Francisco, CA

Responsibilities

Define technical direction and roadmaps for infrastructure cost and efficiency systems, leading projects from problem definition through ongoing operation.
Build billing, usage-metering, and cost-attribution systems connecting infrastructure spend to resources, workloads, services, and owning teams.
Develop batch or streaming data pipelines and shared data models combining billing, inventory, and utilization data.
Build budgeting, forecasting, capacity-planning, APIs, reporting tools, and automated controls for infrastructure management.
Identify underutilized resources and partner with engineering teams to deliver and measure efficiency improvements.
Provide technical leadership, mentor engineers, and own system correctness, scalability, and production behavior.

Requirements

Over 7 years of experience designing, building, and operating production software and distributed systems.
Experience with infrastructure efficiency, cloud cost attribution, usage metering, budgeting, forecasting, or capacity management.
Hands-on ability across architecture, implementation, debugging, and operational improvements.
Understanding of how compute, storage, and networking consumption translate into cost and affect utilization, performance, reliability, and growth.
Strong focus on data correctness and experience building trustworthy systems from complex billing and operational data.
Experience collaborating across engineering, finance, product, and leadership and driving adoption without relying on formal authority.
Experience building internal platforms that provide visibility into cloud spend, resource utilization, and ownership.
Experience with batch or streaming data pipelines, financial data platforms, or large-scale analytics systems.
Experience with Kubernetes, public cloud infrastructure, or resource-management systems across cloud and on-premises environments.
Experience automating resource allocation, cost-allocation policies, budget tracking, or capacity forecasting.

Benefits

The role is based in San Francisco, California and is on-site.
The role offers substantial autonomy and the opportunity to shape how OpenAI manages its infrastructure investment.

Salary: $385k - $445k/yr

OpenAI

OpenAI is an AI research and deployment company dedicated to ensuring that general-purpose artificial intelligence benefits all of humanity. AI is an extremely powerful tool that must be created with safety and human needs at its core. OpenAI is dedicated to putting that alignment of interests fi...

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