Software Engineer, Build Systems / CI

The Engineering Acceleration team builds and operates the foundational systems that engineers use to build, test, and ship ChatGPT, the API, and OpenAI's infrastructure. We are looking for an engineer to help evolve OpenAI's build and continuous integration systems for a fast-growing engineering organization. This role sits at the intersection of developer productivity, build systems, distributed infrastructure, and software quality. You will work on the systems that determine how quickly and c

Have 5+ years of software engineering experience, including significant experience building infrastructure or tooling for developers. Have hands-on experience with Bazel, Buck, Pants, Gradle, or similar build systems, and understand the tradeoffs of hermetic builds, dependency graphs, caching, sandboxing, and remote execution. Have built or operated CI systems at scale, especially in environments where build time, queue time, test flakiness, and developer trust materially affect engineering velo