🛠 Tech Stack

💼 About This Role

You'll contribute to the core database engine, driving improvements across ingestion, query execution, indexing, and storage. You'll partner with teams across OpenAI to unlock new product capabilities and help scale online database reliability. This role focuses on high-performance distributed systems and close-to-the-metal performance optimization.

🎯 What You'll Do

• Design, build, and operate high-performance distributed systems
• Identify and resolve performance bottlenecks to scale infrastructure
• Define long-term technical direction and guide system evolution
• Collaborate with teams to deliver scalable and reliable infrastructure

📋 Requirements

• 4+ years of relevant industry experience
• 2+ years leading large scale projects or teams
• Proficiency in C++ or similar systems programming language
• Experience with distributed systems at scale

✨ Nice to Have

• Domain knowledge in databases, storage engines, or query processing
• Experience with cloud environments (AWS, GCP, Azure) and IaC
• Familiarity with observability stacks (Prometheus, Grafana)

🎁 Benefits & Perks

• 💰 Equity offered as part of compensation
• 🏖️ Flexible PTO
• 🏥 Health insurance
• 📈 401(k) matching
• 🚀 Cutting-edge AI work