Your primary focus will be on delivering an Airbnb network platform that is flexible, efficient, always available, and scales with the needs of the business. You will work closely with peers across Cloud Infra, Security, Reliability, and many other partner teams across the company to achieve this goal.

Key responsibilities include:

• Providing meaningful input to technical designs and direct hands-on contributions to projects in the cloud networking space
• Growing, leading, and managing a small team of talented engineers
• Supporting your team's professional growth and maintaining high performance through mentorship and coaching
• Working with tech leads, peers, and partners to define and execute on a coherent vision and roadmap for Airbnb's cloud network infrastructure and related components
• Working with open source communities (e.g. istio) to build the next generation service mesh for all Airbnb back-end services
• Building cross-region gateways and load balancers for global Airbnb services
• Working with external partners and internal engineering and security teams to deliver edge security systems that protect Airbnb services
• Nurturing a culture of technical quality from design, through code review, to production
• Building strong partnership and alignment with teams across engineering
• Nurturing relationships with open source communities and external service partners

As a successful candidate, you will have a strong background in engineering management, with 2+ years of experience and 8+ years of relevant software development experience in a fast-paced tech environment. You will also have experience with a public cloud provider (AWS, GCP, Azure) and their networking service offerings, as well as experience running large-scale networking systems and software (e.g. proxies, DNS, gateways).

Additionally, you will have excellent communication skills and the ability to work well with teams across the engineering organization (e.g. reliability, compute, security, etc.). You will also have strong problem-solving skills and experience leading teams on-call for production infrastructure.

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You will have the chance to define and influence large infrastructure initiatives such as global traffic load balancing and disaster recovery, next-gen service mesh, cross-region gateways, and edge security. Airbnb is a member of the Cloud Native Computing Foundation (CNCF) end-user community, and we work closely with the open-source community (e.g., k8s, istio) and peer companies to tackle cloud-native engineering challenges at scale.

In this role, you will:

• Work with open-source communities (e.g., istio) to build the next-generation service mesh for all Airbnb back-end services;
• Build cross-region gateways and load balancers for global Airbnb services;
• Work with external partners and internal engineering and security teams to deliver edge security systems that protect Airbnb services;
• Design the multi-region network architecture on public clouds and build software and operation tools to manage Airbnb's production network;
• Work with product and engineering teams to optimize the network performance for Airbnb services;

You will be a full-cycle developer with strong ownership and experience building and operating high-scale, distributed systems across the full software life cycle. You will have excellent communication skills and the ability to work well within a team and with teams across the engineering teams.

You will be passionate about efficiency, availability, technical quality, and system quality. You will have led a team that is on-call for production infrastructure before.

If you are passionate about building scalable and reliable systems, and you want to make an impact on the industry and open-source communities, then we want to hear from you!

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Location

San Francisco

Employment Type

Full time

Department

Applied AI

Compensation

• $230K – $385K • Offers Equity

The base pay offered may vary depending on multiple individualized factors, including market location, job-related knowledge, skills, and experience. If the role is non-exempt, overtime pay will be provided consistent with applicable laws. In addition to the salary range listed above, total compensation also includes generous equity, performance-related bonus(es) for eligible employees, and the following benefits.

Benefits

• Medical, dental, and vision insurance for you and your family, with employer contributions to Health Savings Accounts

• Pre-tax accounts for Health FSA, Dependent Care FSA, and commuter expenses (parking and transit)

• 401(k) retirement plan with employer match

• Paid parental leave (up to 24 weeks for birth parents and 20 weeks for non-birthing parents), plus paid medical and caregiver leave (up to 8 weeks)

• Paid time off: flexible PTO for exempt employees and up to 15 days annually for non-exempt employees

• 13+ paid company holidays, and multiple paid coordinated company office closures throughout the year for focus and recharge, plus paid sick or safe time (1 hour per 30 hours worked, or more, as required by applicable state or local law)

• Mental health and wellness support

• Employer-paid basic life and disability coverage

• Annual learning and development stipend to fuel your professional growth

• Daily meals in our offices, and meal delivery credits as eligible

• Relocation support for eligible employees

• Additional taxable fringe benefits, such as charitable donation matching and wellness stipends, may also be provided.

About the Team

The Platform Team at OpenAI owns the foundational data and processing stack powering the OpenAI API and products built on top of it. We innovate on the infrastructure needed to serve the latest models and agentic workflows at an unprecedented pace of growth and scale with high performance and reliability. Join us to build and operate the core platform that underpins OpenAI’s products and allows our customers to deploy AI themselves.

About the Role

This role is centered on designing and deploying services and infrastructure that empower our models and agents to generate insights and execute tasks, all grounded in authorized data sources and internal systems. You’ll help define the most effective data access patterns to unlock higher model accuracy and task performance. You will own the full lifecycle of your work—from architecture and implementation to production operations and on-call responsibilities.

Responsibilities

• Design, build, and maintain infrastructure and networking systems that connect structured and unstructured data to LLMs in a performant and reliable manner.

• Design, build, and maintain secure and compliant systems to process sensitive and valuable data.

• Ensure our platform can support use cases at the scale of large enterprise customers, while remaining reliable and efficient.

• Integrate data access and authentication with our production model and agent systems.

• Collaborate with product, research and forward-deployed engineering teams to fill in the full picture on how to deploy production systems and achieve world-class results on overall task capabilities.

• Own the reliability of the systems you build, including participation in an on-call rotation for critical incidents

Requirements

• Have expertise in deploying, configuring, and operating software systems within customer-managed infrastructure and networks.

• Are excited to bring the power of AGI to the infrastructure the world runs on today

• Are comfortable with ambiguity and rapid change

• Have an intrinsic desire to learn and fill in missing skills, and an equally strong talent for sharing learnings clearly and concisely with others

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.

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We take care of all aspects of database planning, implementation, and maintenance. We perform physical database implementation, including index tuning, storage management and partitioning, and scoping and integration of new datacenter hardware. We monitor, tune, and refactor database and server performance. We collaborate to implement database-related features, including data modeling, procedural code design, query tuning, and performance management. We design and implement schemes for data security, system availability, and disaster recovery, including backup, log shipping, mirroring and Always On.

We also recruit database specialists like you. Do you prefer to collaborate with peers to define the work that you pursue? Valve's work environment is unique in that we rely on employees to be self-motivated, accountable, and able to recognize where to focus energy. If you're seeking an opportunity to improve upon processes and systems while continuing to call upon your database administration skills, consider joining Valve.

Database administrators at Valve have significant industry experience related to database design, implementation, and maintenance. Typical skills include:

• Expertise with relational database management systems such as Microsoft SQL Server.
• Database administration experience in large-scale high-availability environments.
• Task automation and configuration management with languages such as PowerShell, Python, etc.
• Design and management of disk storage systems
• Capacity planning and system integration
• Networking systems

What We Offer

• An organization where 100% of time is dedicated as groups see fit
• The opportunity to collaborate with experts across a range of disciplines
• A work environment and flexible schedule in support of families and domestic partnerships
• A culture eager to become stronger through diversity of all forms
• Exceptional health insurance coverage
• Unrivaled employer match for our 401(k) retirement plan
• Generous vacation and family leave
• On-site amenities in support of health and efficiency
• Fertility and adoption assistance
• Reimbursement for child care during interviews

Valve strives to improve the diversity of our teams to better serve our diverse global audience. We welcome and encourage individuals from all backgrounds to apply. Candidates will be considered without regard to race, religion, color, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, age, family status, veteran status or disability status. Valve is committed to creating an inclusive work environment and does not tolerate discrimination or harassment in the workplace.

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What you'll do

• Architect and implement strategies for time sensitive gameplay mechanics in a responsive, action oriented multiplayer game in collaboration with engineers, designers and artists.
• Work with engineering teams to identify and implement core real time networking systems and gameplay features.
• Technical oversight of your team members' contributions.
• Actively share domain knowledge, teach and mentor engineers within their team.
• Design, implement and document technology and strategies to facilitate the development of games mechanics in a multiplayer environment by other team members.
• Own features and collaborate with team members to solve problems efficiently.

What you need

• 4+ years experience in software development with a strong C++ focus.
• Shipped multiplayer action games as a contributor in networked game mechanics and technology, such as: shooters, melee combat, sports or sports adjacent.
• You understand the tradeoffs between the various approaches of latency mitigation in multiplayer games, and their applications and shortcomings.
• Advanced debugging skills applicable to client/server multiplayer games.

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