TL;DR
Software Engineer Delivery CD (AI): Build and operate continuous deployment infrastructure for OpenAI’s production systems with an accent on Kubernetes orchestration, progressive delivery, and AI-assisted deployment workflows. Focus on designing safe, scalable rollout mechanisms and automating deployment health evaluation to improve engineering velocity and reliability.
Location: San Francisco and Seattle, United States
Salary: $210,000 – $490,000 + Equity
Company
OpenAI is an AI research and deployment company dedicated to ensuring that general-purpose artificial intelligence benefits all of humanity by pushing AI capabilities and safely deploying AI products.
What you will do
- Design and build continuous deployment infrastructure across Kubernetes clusters and global regions.
- Develop progressive delivery systems including canary releases, staged rollouts, and automated rollback.
- Automate manual operational workflows to improve engineering velocity.
- Collaborate with product and infrastructure teams to ensure deployability, observability, and resilience at scale.
- Implement deployment methodologies such as GitOps, infrastructure-as-code, and progressive delivery patterns.
- Build AI-assisted or autonomous deployment workflows and systems to evaluate deployment health and trigger safe rollbacks.
Requirements
- Location: Must be based in San Francisco or Seattle, United States
- Experience with Kubernetes-based deployment systems at scale.
- Experience building or operating continuous deployment platforms.
- Familiarity with GitOps tooling such as ArgoCD or Flux.
- Passion for building AI-assisted systems for safe production rollouts.
Culture & Benefits
- Equal opportunity employer with commitment to diversity and inclusion.
- Background checks compliant with local US laws and ordinances.
- Reasonable accommodations for applicants with disabilities.
- Competitive salary with equity offers.