Distributed Systems Engineer

Summary

Join OpenAI's security engineering team as a Distributed Systems Engineer and play a crucial role in protecting our large-scale AI infrastructure. You will build and maintain production-grade distributed systems that secure OpenAI's massive compute fleet. This involves designing, architecting, and implementing security improvements across our systems. The role requires expertise in security, software, and infrastructure, with experience in large-scale distributed systems. You will work with a diverse team to ensure the safety and reliability of our AI systems. As an early member of the team, your contributions will significantly impact OpenAI's future.

Requirements

• Have experience with a wide variety of real-world issues
• Have a broad knowledge of security, software, and infrastructure

Responsibilities

• Work across our Go, Python, and Rust stacks
• Build infrastructure and primitives to secure our bare metal and cloud infrastructure, using modern approaches and technologies, such as trusted computing
• Profile and optimize and help design for scale, while keeping security as transparent as possible to engineers and researchers

Preferred Qualifications

• Have designed, implemented, and operated large-scale distributed systems
• Love figuring out how systems work and continuously come up with ideas for how to make them faster while minimizing complexity and maintenance burden
• Have strong software engineering skills and are proficient in Python, Go, and/or Rust
• Have a good understanding of tradeoffs between security, reliability, usability, and performance