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Software Engineer, Database Systems

OpenAI
Location
Not specified
Work mode
On-site
Type
full time
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[ About this role ]

Software Engineer on the Database Systems team at OpenAI, specializing in high-performance distributed databases. This role involves contributing to the core database engine, focusing on ingestion, query execution, indexing, and storage, and partnering with other teams to scale infrastructure.

Skills and focus areas

  • distributed systems
  • performance optimization
  • database infrastructure
  • scalability
  • system design
  • debugging
  • incident response
  • system reliability
  • storage engines
  • low-latency query systems

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