OpenAI

Senior Staff Software Engineer, Engineering Acceleration

San Francisco · Staff+ · Contract

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About the role

This role is based in San Francisco, CA.
We use a hybrid work model of four days in the office per week and offer relocation assistance to new employees.
We're looking for exceptional people who thrive on solving hard problems, move with urgency, and want their work to matter at global scale.

Design, build, and operate CI/CD systems and software delivery pipelines for software that runs both on device and in the cloud.
Lead the design and architecture of internal platform capabilities across build, test, deployment, workflow automation, and developer tooling.
Make hands-on technical decisions about platform design, abstraction boundaries, and system tradeoffs based on the team's current stage, scale, and operational needs.
Improve developer productivity by shortening feedback loops across build, test, debugging, environment setup, and release-adjacent workflows.
Build self-serve paved-road workflows that reduce manual effort and make common engineering tasks fast, reliable, and easy to adopt.
Build secure-by-default platform capabilities, including access controls, secrets and credential handling, artifact permissions, auditability, and policy enforcement in software delivery workflows.
Partner closely with product, systems, release, quality, and infrastructure teams to understand pain points and turn them into durable platform improvements.
Guide engineering teams on pragmatic observability, reliability, and scalability choices for the systems they build.
Have 10+ years of software engineering experience, including 5+ years building developer productivity, CI/CD, internal platform, or engineering systems.
Have deep experience designing and operating robust CI/CD pipelines, build systems, and software delivery infrastructure for complex products.

Define and track metrics for platform health and engineering effectiveness, including build times, queue times, failure rates, flaky failures, and deployment lead time.

At OpenAI | Consumer Devices, you won't just build products-you'll help shape the future of how humanity interacts with intelligence.
Here, you'll collaborate with some of the most talented minds in research, engineering, and operations to create products that millions (perhaps billions) will come to enjoy and rely on.
If you're motivated by impact, curiosity, and the chance to define what comes next, we'd like to hear from you.

This listing is sourced directly from OpenAI's careers page and normalized into a canonical job model.