Senior Software Engineer, Product

OpenAI OpenAI · AI Frontier · Seattle, WA · Applied AI

Senior Software Engineer on the Statsig team responsible for designing and building the core experimentation, rollout, and analytics infrastructure that powers OpenAI's product development stack. This role focuses on enabling teams to safely launch features, run experiments, and understand product/model changes at scale, sitting at the intersection of product engineering and platform infrastructure.

What you'd actually do

  1. Design and build core experimentation and rollout infrastructure used by teams across OpenAI to launch and evaluate product and model changes safely.
  2. Develop systems for feature management, progressive rollouts, and canary deployments that allow engineers to ship quickly while minimizing risk to users.
  3. Partner directly with Data Science to enable scaled adoption of advanced statistical methodologies
  4. Partner with product, infrastructure, and research teams across the organization to integrate experimentation and rollout systems deeply into their product development lifecycle.
  5. Lead large technical initiatives, shaping the architecture and long-term evolution of OpenAI’s experimentation and launch infrastructure.

Skills

Required

  • building internal tooling infrastructure
  • internal data or experimentation platforms
  • feature flagging systems
  • rollout tooling
  • internal developer platforms
  • designing and operating large-scale distributed systems
  • high traffic products
  • rapid iteration cycles
  • ownership of complex technical problems end-to-end
  • driving architectural decisions

Nice to have

  • enabling other engineers to move faster
  • developer experience
  • platform usability
  • fast-moving environments
  • ambiguity is high
  • opportunity for impact is large

What the JD emphasized

  • core experimentation
  • rollout infrastructure
  • product development stack
  • product and model changes
  • experimentation and rollout systems
  • experimentation and launch infrastructure