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Software Engineer, Traffic Infrastructure

About the TeamThe Cloud Infrastructure team builds and operates the infrastructure behind OpenAI’s products, including ChatGPT and the API. Within Cloud Infrastructure, the Traffic team owns how traffic enters our cloud environments, moves

Company

OpenAI

Location

San Francisco; Seattle

Status

Open

Posted

2026-10-29T03:04:56.522+00:00

OpenAI seeks a software engineer for its Traffic team within Cloud Infrastructure, based in San Francisco or Seattle. The role involves building and running ingress, egress and service-to-service networking across clusters, regions and clouds, including proxies, gateways, load balancing, NAT and routing automation. Candidates need five or more years in production infrastructure or distributed systems plus depth in networking and production software in Go, Rust, C++, Python or similar. The work combines engineering with on-call and production ownership, and includes security collaboration and traffic telemetry.