Software Engineer, Compute - Storage
OpenAI
San Francisco, CA · $230k–$385k a year · Posted November 2, 2026
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Pay compared with the market
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About the job
...help build the storage platform that powers OpenAI’s research and production systems. This is a hands-on infrastructure role for engineers who want to work on deeply technical systems at scale and own them in production.You’ll work across object storage, cross-region data...