Software Engineer, Delivery / CD

About the Role The Engineering Acceleration Delivery / Continuous Deployment team builds and operates the systems that safely ship OpenAI’s infrastructure and product code to production. We own the deployment platform, release pipelines, and rollout safety mechanisms that allow engineers across OpenAI to deploy changes rapidly while minimizing operational risk. Our mission is to make production deployments fast, safe, and increasingly autonomous. This role sits at the intersection of developer productivity, distributed systems reliability, and large-scale infrastructure orchestration. In This Role, You Will - Design and build continuous deployment infrastructure that safely rolls out changes across dozens of Kubernetes clusters and global regions. - Develop systems for progressive delivery, including canary releases, staged rollouts, and automated rollback. - Improve engineering velocity by reducing friction in the release pipeline and automating manual operational workflows. - Work with product and infrastructure teams to ensure their services are deployable, observable, and resilient at scale. - Implement and evolve deployment methodologies such as GitOps, infrastructure-as-code, and progressive delivery patterns. - Build systems that automatically evaluate deployment health using metrics, logs, traces, and alerts to detect regressions and trigger safe rollbacks. - Build systems that support agent-assisted or autonomous deployment workflows using modern AI tooling. Technologies commonly used in this environment include: - Kubernetes for large-scale container orchestration and runtime infrastructure - Python and FastAPI for internal services - Terraform for infrastructure as code - GitOps-based deployment workflows (e.g., ArgoCD, Flux, or similar systems) - Buildkite for CI orchestration You may be a strong fit if you: - Have worked with Kubernetes-based deployment systems at scale - Have experience building or operating continuous deployment platforms - Are familiar with GitOps tooling such as ArgoCD or Flux - Are excited about building AI-assisted systems and agents that intelligently shepherd software changes from commit to safe production rollout. - Care deeply about safe production rollouts and minimizing blast radius - Enjoy building internal platforms that improve developer productivity across the organization Compensation $230K – $490K + Offers Equity 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. 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 https://cdn.openai.com/policies/eeo-policy-statement.pdf. 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