Software Engineer, Delivery / CD

About the RoleThe 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 WillDesign 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 infrastructurePython and FastAPI for internal servicesTerraform for infrastructure as codeGitOps-based deployment workflows (e.g., ArgoCD, Flux, or similar systems)Buildkite for CI orchestrationYou may be a strong fit if you:Have worked with Kubernetes-based deployment systems at scaleHave experience building or operating continuous deployment platformsAre familiar with GitOps tooling such as ArgoCD or FluxAre 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 radiusEnjoy building internal platforms that improve developer productivity across the organizationCompensation$230K – $490K + Offers EquityAbout OpenAIOpenAI 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