Software Engineer, Cloud Agents
- Location
- San Francisco, CA (Remote) · On-site
- Job type
- Full-time
- Level
- Director
- Experience
- 9+ years
- Listed
- 30 days ago
Skills & highlights for this role
- distributed systems
- cloud infrastructure
- backend development
- production reliability
Also useful
- Python
- Rust
- Go
About the Role
We are looking for an experienced software engineer to help build and scale our cloud agent platform. You will design and operate systems for orchestrating agents at scale. You will work closely with product engineers on ChatGPT, API, and Codex to define the right abstractions and enable them to ship products quickly. Strong backend or infrastructure experience is important; experience with Python, Rust, distributed systems, cloud infrastructure, or product platforms is especially helpful.
In this role, you will
- Design and scale the orchestration, sandboxing and storage systems that run agentic workloads for Codex, ChatGPT, and the OpenAI API.
- Partner with product engineers to build a platform that enables them to ship quickly and turn feedback into robust abstractions.
- Improve reliability, security, performance, and cost efficiency for long-running agents.
- Deploy services that can operate across different environments and clouds.
Your background might look something like
- 9+ years of professional engineering experience, excluding internships, in relevant roles at technology and product-driven companies.
- Experience leading large-scale backend, platform, or infrastructure projects from ambiguous problem statements to production systems.
- Proficiency in one or more backend languages such as Python, Go, Rust, TypeScript, or similar, and the ability to move across service, platform, and product boundaries.
- Strong understanding of distributed systems, cloud platforms, and production reliability.
- Enjoy abstracting away complex infrastructure and building platforms for product engineers to move faster.
- Care about building platforms for other engineers and developers, and enjoy working closely with users to make complex infrastructure feel simple.
- Comfort with a fast-moving pace while caring for security and operational excellence.
About the Team
The Cloud Agents team builds product infrastructure for long-running agents in the cloud: orchestration, sandboxing and isolation, secure environment connectivity, secrets and identity, observability, reliability, and cost controls. These agents securely connect to diverse developer and customer environments and use tools to accomplish goals. We partner closely with product, research, and infrastructure teams to turn agentic capabilities into dependable platforms for OpenAI products and developers building on OpenAI.
About OpenAI
OpenAI 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.
To notify OpenAI that you believe this job posting is non-compliant, please submit a report through this form No response will be provided to inquiries unrelated to job posting compliance.
Equal opportunity and legal notices
At OpenAI, we believe artificial intelligence has the potential to help people solve immense global challenges, and we want the upside of AI to be widely shared. Join us in shaping the future of technology.
We 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.
For additional information, please see OpenAI’s Affirmative Action and Equal Employment Opportunity Policy Statement
Background 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.
We are committed to providing reasonable accommodations to applicants with disabilities, and requests can be made via this link
From OpenAI's careers page, first listed on Rolev.ai on October 10, 2026. Rolev.ai is not the employer.
How Rolev.ai helps with this application
Rolev.ai is a job search and application tool for US job seekers. For this Software Engineer, Cloud Agents role at OpenAI, it shows how your resume fits, tailors your resume to the posting, and prepares the application for you to review.
See how you fit
Openings from employer career sites are ranked against your whole resume—and searchable inside Claude, ChatGPT, and Cursor via Rolev.ai MCP.
Tailor without inventing
Every change to your resume is checked against your original. New experience goes in only with your yes—zero fabricated claims.
Draft the full kit
Tailored and Full Match resumes, role-specific cover letters, and answers to employer screening questions are prepared in seconds.
1-Click Extension Autofill
The Chrome extension fills the employer's Greenhouse, Workday, Lever, or Ashby form in 1 click. You review it and press Submit.
Similar roles
All Software Developer jobs- Software DeveloperAccenture Federal Services · Washington, DC · $97.5k – $115k/yr
- Software Developer 803Freedom Technology Solutions Group · Annapolis Junction, MD · $150k – $200k/yr
- Software DeveloperPurvis Systems · Newport, RI
- NASA Human Spaceflight Artificial Intelligence (AI) Software Engineer and Data ScientistCACI · Houston, TX
- Senior Manager Software EngineeringNasdaq · Atlanta, GA
- Software Engineering Supervisor - Test SystemsMoog · Torrance, CA
Common questions
Where is the Software Engineer, Cloud Agents job at OpenAI located?
Yes, this Software Engineer, Cloud Agents opening at OpenAI is listed as San Francisco, CA (Remote) (On-site). Always check OpenAI's application page for specific state eligibility or relocation policies.
What qualifications are required for Software Engineer, Cloud Agents at OpenAI?
For the Software Engineer, Cloud Agents role, OpenAI highlights 9+ years of relevant experience; experience with distributed systems, cloud infrastructure, backend development, production reliability. Rolev.ai can score your existing resume against these requirements and show any skill gaps before you apply.
How do I apply for the Software Engineer, Cloud Agents position at OpenAI?
This listing links directly to OpenAI's Ashby application page. You can apply directly on OpenAI's site, or use Rolev.ai to check your resume fit, generate a zero-hallucination tailored resume and cover letter for this posting, and autofill the Ashby application form in 1 click with the Rolev.ai Chrome extension. You always review the form and press Submit yourself.