OpenAI
Software Engineer, Build Systems / CI
Found: May 26, 2026
This role is based in San Francisco, New York City, or Seattle.
Compensation:
$185K – $490K + Offers Equity
Responsibilities:
- Design, build, and operate CI infrastructure for fast, reliable feedback.
- Improve Bazel-based build and test workflows.
- Partner with product and infrastructure teams for platform improvements.
- Enhance observability of build and CI failures.
- Utilize AI tools to improve developer interactions with CI.
- Participate in on-call rotation for critical developer infrastructure.
Requirements:
- 5+ years of software engineering experience.
- Hands-on experience with build systems like Bazel.
- Experience operating CI systems at scale.
- Strong debugging skills in distributed systems.
- Ability to communicate and collaborate across teams.
Tech stack:
- Bazel, Buildkite, Python, FastAPI, Kubernetes, Terraform, Postgres, Kafka.