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Software Engineer, Database Systems

About the Team:The Database Systems team specializes in high-performance distributed databases. Our team built Rockset, the real-time search, analytics, and vector database that powers all vector search and retrieval augmented generation (R

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Company

OpenAI

Location

San Francisco; Mountain View

Status

Open

Posted

2025-07-29T15:35:56.79+00:00

OpenAI's Database Systems team maintains Rockset, the distributed database behind the company's vector search and retrieval-augmented generation workloads, and also supports internal and product use cases. This engineer works on the core C++ engine: ingestion, query execution, indexing and storage, performance tuning, production issue debugging and incident response. The posting asks for 4+ years of industry experience, with 2+ years leading large projects or teams, plus distributed-systems scaling work, Kubernetes operations, cloud infrastructure and Terraform. Domain knowledge of databases is preferred but not required.