2 months ago
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 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.