Software Engineer, Observability is open at OpenAI in San Francisco. The posting gives a salary of $266K - $445K. Posted on Feb 19, 2026, and still on OpenAI’s careers page when we last checked, on Nov 14, 2026.
About the role
We’re building the observability product for OpenAI—from scalable infrastructure to a rich, AI-powered UI. Our systems ingest over petabytes of logs and billions of time series metrics across our fleet. We're now layering intelligence on top—think agents that summarize SEVs, auto-generate dashboards, or help engineers debug through notebook-like UIs. We’re hiring software engineers across the stack—infra, backend…
The opening lines of the posting. The rest is on OpenAI’s careers page.
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