8 months ago
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 builds and deploys large-scale AI models and tools—including ChatGPT, GPT-4–class models, DALL·E, and Whisper—sold via APIs and enterprise subscriptions to developers and businesses. It monetizes through usage-based API pricing and ChatGPT Plus/Team/Enterprise, and also reaches customers via Microsoft’s Azure OpenAI Service. Founded in 2015 and headquartered in San Francisco, it operates as a private partnership.