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Software Engineer, Habitat (Online Data)

About the teamOnline Data builds and operates Habitat, the single product surface of Online Data and the system of record for OpenAI’s online user data. As OpenAI’s scale and product requirements evolve, Habitat is becoming a full-stack, on

Company

OpenAI

Location

Seattle

Status

Open

Posted

2025-04-14T21:41:35.324+00:00

OpenAI is hiring a software engineer for Online Data, the team that builds and runs Habitat, the database platform and system of record for the company's online user data. The work spans storage, caching, routing, change data capture and privacy enforcement, with end-to-end ownership of APIs, latency, cost and reliability, plus on-call. The posting asks for 8+ years of production software experience, 3+ of them leading large projects, and Rust and/or Python. Multi-region consistency and p99 tail latency are named priorities.