Software Engineer, Database Systems at OpenAI
- Company: OpenAI
- Location: San Francisco
- Employment type: Full-time
- Salary: $266K – $445K • Offers Equity
- Posted: 2025-07-29
- Technologies: OpenAI, Vector DB, RAG
About the role
About the Team: The Database Systems team specializes in high-performance distributed databases. Our team built Rockset, the real-time search, analytics, and vector database that powers all vector search and retrieval augmented generation (RAG) at OpenAI. In addition to retrieval, as an online database, Rockset powers core functionality across all of OpenAI's product lines and many critical internal use cases. About the Role: We are looking for engineers passionate about distributed systems, close-to-the-metal performance optimization (our core engine is written in C++), and building scalable database infrastructure from the ground up. As an engineer on the Database Systems team, you'll contribute to the core database engine, driving improvements across ingestion, query execution, indexing, and storage.…
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