Base Salary
$266k - $445k/yr
Responsibilities
- Architect and build systems supporting pricing, packaging, checkout, payments, subscriptions, usage-based billing, credits, entitlements, invoicing, and the order-to-cash lifecycle.
- Design and operate backend, platform, or distributed systems with strong guarantees for correctness, reliability, security, observability, reconciliation, and auditability.
- Own ambiguous, business-critical problems from initial definition through launch and long-term operation.
- Develop APIs, data models, storage systems, transactional workflows, and event-driven architectures.
- Partner with Product, Finance, Accounting, Risk, Operations, Data Science, and Go-to-Market teams.
- Balance near-term delivery with long-term system quality while working independently in an evolving environment.
Requirements
- At least 5 years of professional software engineering experience building and operating production backend, platform, or distributed systems.
- Strong fundamentals in API design, data modeling, storage systems, transactional workflows, and event-driven architecture.
- Experience building systems where correctness, reliability, observability, security, or data integrity are especially important.
- Ability to own ambiguous business-critical problems and communicate clearly with technical and non-technical partners.
- Product-oriented mindset and ability to make thoughtful tradeoffs between delivery speed and long-term quality.
- Preferred experience with payments, subscriptions, billing, pricing, credits, entitlements, invoicing, revenue systems, or other monetization infrastructure.
- Preferred experience with high-scale financial or transactional systems, reconciliation workflows, compliance requirements, audit controls, shared platforms, APIs, frameworks, or developer tools.
Benefits
- OpenAI is an equal opportunity employer and provides reasonable accommodations for applicants with disabilities.
- Employment is subject to applicable background-check and applicant privacy policies.
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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.