Base Salary
$293k - $325k/yr
Responsibilities
- Architect, build, and maintain high-performance, secure backend systems
- Design APIs, data models, and infrastructure for evolving product needs
- Balance near-term development velocity with long-term maintainability and scalability
- Collaborate with product, hardware, full-stack, and other cross-functional teams on cohesive end-to-end solutions
Requirements
- 7+ years of professional software engineering experience focused on backend systems
- Proficiency with Python and Go, plus familiarity with server-side technologies
- Proven experience building and scaling systems from early-stage development to large-scale deployment
- Strong understanding of system design, performance optimization, and security best practices
- Ability to reason about full-stack tradeoffs from hardware through cloud infrastructure
- Preferred experience with distributed systems and cloud architectures
- Preferred background in instrumentation, analytics, and performance tuning
- Preferred familiarity with hardware-cloud integrations or applied AI services
Benefits
- Hybrid work model requiring four days per week in the San Francisco office
- Relocation assistance for new employees
About OpenAI
OpenAI is an AI research and deployment company dedicated to ensuring that general-purpose artificial intelligence benefits all of humanity. AI is an extremely powerful tool that must be created with safety and human needs at its core. OpenAI is dedicated to putting that alignment of interests first — ahead of profit. To achieve our mission, we must encompass and value the many different perspectives, voices, and experiences that form the full spectrum of humanity. Our investment in diversity, equity, and inclusion is ongoing, executed through a wide range of initiatives, and championed and supported by leadership. At OpenAI, we believe artificial intelligence has the potential to help people solve immense global challenges, and we want the upside of AI to be widely shared. Join us in shaping the future of technology.