Software Engineer, Traffic Infrastructure

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

Responsibilities

Design, build, and operate ingress, egress, and service-to-service connectivity across clusters, regions, and clouds.
Develop proxies, gateways, controllers, and automation for routing, load balancing, failover, and traffic management.
Build and evolve cloud networking infrastructure, including private connectivity, NAT, and network isolation.
Diagnose failures and performance bottlenecks across application, proxy, transport, and cloud networking layers.
Build telemetry and diagnostic tools to explain traffic paths and identify failing components.
Implement and validate traffic-path protections with Security, including secure service communication, access controls, egress restrictions, and DDoS defenses.
Improve latency, throughput, availability, and network efficiency through measurement, testing, and production rollouts.
Create clear interfaces and safe defaults for service teams, participate in on-call, and reduce recurring failures and manual work.

Requirements

5+ years of experience building production infrastructure or distributed systems, including substantial networking or traffic infrastructure work.
Depth in one or more areas such as cloud networking, Kubernetes networking, proxies and gateways, service meshes, load balancing, or global traffic routing.
Understanding of IP routing, TCP/UDP, DNS, NAT, TLS, and HTTP/gRPC as they affect connectivity and performance.
Hands-on experience with systems such as Envoy, NGINX, Istio, Cilium, or comparable networking infrastructure.
Production software development experience in Go, Rust, C++, Python, or a similar language.
Ability to investigate unfamiliar failures using evidence, test hypotheses, and verify resolutions.
Ability to own design, implementation, rollout, and ongoing reliability while communicating across team boundaries.
Care for building infrastructure that is secure and understandable for dependent engineers.

Benefits

Role based in San Francisco, CA or Seattle, WA.
Participation in on-call and production ownership.
OpenAI is an equal opportunity employer and provides reasonable accommodations for applicants with disabilities.

Salary: $266k - $445k/yr

OpenAI

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