Software Engineer, Agent Platform

The Agent Platform team at OpenAI builds production systems that bring useful AI agents to users worldwide.

As a Software Engineer on the Agent Platform team, you will build and scale services that power agentic products at OpenAI.

Responsibilities:

• Build and operate production services that enable agents to execute code, use tools, and interact with external systems.
• Design APIs and platform abstractions that make it easier for product teams to build and launch agentic experiences.
• Develop orchestration systems that manage agent execution, state, resource allocation, retries, and recovery.
• Improve platform reliability, latency, and efficiency through performance optimization, observability, and capacity planning.
• Partner with product, research, security, and infrastructure teams to bring new agent capabilities into production.
• Own systems through their full lifecycle, from design and implementation to rollout, monitoring, and ongoing operation.

Requirements:

• Experience building and operating large-scale backend services, distributed systems, or cloud infrastructure.
• Strong understanding of system performance, concurrency, failure modes, and resource management.
• Comfortable working across service boundaries and collaborating with teams to solve problems from end to end.
• Experience with cloud platforms, containers, orchestration systems, or infrastructure-as-code tools such as Terraform.

We offer a salary of $230K - $385K, a hybrid work model of 3 days in the office per week, and relocation assistance to new employees.