Backend Engineer, Consumer Products

OpenAI

about 1 month ago

San Francisco, CA, USA

Senior

Base Salary

$293k - $325k/yr

Responsibilities

Architect, build, and maintain high-performance, secure backend systems.
Design APIs, data models, and infrastructure to support evolving product needs.
Balance near-term development velocity with long-term maintainability and scalability.
Collaborate with cross-functional teams to ensure cohesive, end-to-end solutions.

Have 7+ years of professional software engineering experience, focusing on backend systems.
Have a proven track record of building and scaling systems from early stage to large scale.
Be proficient with Python and Go, and familiar with a range of server-side technologies.
Have a strong grasp of system design, performance optimization, and security best practices.
Be able to reason about full-stack tradeoffs from hardware through cloud infrastructure.
Experience with distributed systems and cloud architectures is a plus.
Background in instrumentation, analytics, and performance tuning is a plus.
Familiarity with hardware-cloud integrations or applied AI services is a plus.

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