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Our mission is to make production deployments fast, safe, and increasingly autonomous.\nThis role sits at the intersection of developer productivity, distributed systems reliability, and large-scale infrastructure orchestration.\nIn This Role, You Will\nDesign and build continuous deployment infrastructure that safely rolls out changes across dozens of Kubernetes clusters and global regions.\n\nDevelop systems for progressive delivery, including canary releases, staged rollouts, and automated rollback.\n\nImprove engineering velocity by reducing friction in the release pipeline and automating manual operational workflows.\n\nWork with product and infrastructure teams to ensure their services are deployable, observable, and resilient at scale.\n\nImplement and evolve deployment methodologies such as GitOps, infrastructure-as-code, and progressive delivery patterns.\n\nBuild systems that automatically evaluate deployment health using metrics, logs, traces, and alerts to detect regressions and trigger safe rollbacks.\n\nBuild systems that support agent-assisted or autonomous deployment workflows using modern AI tooling.\n\nTechnologies commonly used in this environment include:\nKubernetes for large-scale container orchestration and runtime infrastructure\n\nPython and FastAPI for internal services\n\nTerraform for infrastructure as code\n\nGitOps-based deployment workflows (e.g., ArgoCD, Flux, or similar systems)\n\nBuildkite for CI orchestration\n\nYou may be a strong fit if you:\nHave worked with Kubernetes-based deployment systems at scale\n\nHave experience building or operating continuous deployment platforms\n\nAre familiar with GitOps tooling such as ArgoCD or Flux\n\nAre excited about building AI-assisted systems and agents that intelligently shepherd software changes from commit to safe production rollout.\n\nCare deeply about safe production rollouts and minimizing blast radius\n\nEnjoy building internal platforms that improve developer productivity across the organization\n\nCompensation\n$230K - $490K + Offers Equity\nAbout OpenAI\nOpenAI is an AI research and deployment company dedicated to ensuring that general-purpose artificial intelligence benefits all of humanity. We push the boundaries of the capabilities of AI systems and seek to safely deploy them to the world through our products. AI is an extremely powerful tool that must be created with safety and human needs at its core, and to achieve our mission, we must encompass and value the many different perspectives, voices, and experiences that form the full spectrum of humanity.\nWe are an equal opportunity employer, and we do not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, color, national origin, sex, sexual orientation, age, veteran status, disability, genetic information, or other applicable legally protected characteristic.\nFor additional information, please see OpenAI’s Affirmative Action and Equal Employment Opportunity Policy Statement.\nBackground checks for applicants will be administered in accordance with applicable law, and qualified applicants with arrest or conviction records will be considered for employment consistent with those laws, including the San Francisco Fair Chance Ordinance, the Los Angeles County Fair Chance Ordinance for Employers, and the California Fair Chance Act, for US-based candidates. For unincorporated Los Angeles County workers: we reasonably believe that criminal history may have a direct, adverse and negative relationship with the following job duties, potentially resulting in the withdrawal of a conditional offer of employment: protect computer hardware entrusted to you from theft, loss or damage; return all computer hardware in your possession (including the data contained therein) upon termination of employment or end of assignment; and maintain the confidentiality of proprietary, confidential, and non-public information. In addition, job duties require access to secure and protected information technology systems and related data security obligations.\nTo notify OpenAI that you believe this job posting is non-compliant, please submit a report through this form. 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