2 months ago
Base Salary
$293k - $385k/yr
Responsibilities
- Own backend product capabilities across authentication and identity, service accounts and key controls, secure networking, compliance, observability, and operational workflows.
- Partner with Product, go-to-market, security, infrastructure teams, and sophisticated customers to identify needs, shape the roadmap, and lead cross-functional projects from design through launch.
- Design developer-facing APIs, system behavior, configuration, error handling, safe defaults, auditing, and notifications.
- Build, operate, and debug highly reliable backend systems spanning databases, streaming infrastructure, request routing, and distributed services.
Requirements
- 9+ years of professional engineering experience, excluding internships, in relevant backend, platform, or product-driven engineering roles.
- Exceptional backend engineering depth, strong product judgment, and a track record of shipping API or platform capabilities that users depend on.
- Experience leading large cross-functional initiatives, influencing product direction, and aligning engineering, Product, go-to-market, security, and infrastructure partners.
- Proficiency in one or more backend languages such as Python, Go, Rust, TypeScript, or similar.
- Experience with distributed systems, databases, streaming systems, request routing, authentication and identity, networking, or enterprise platform controls.
- Strong communication and developer empathy, including experience working with product partners and users to turn ambiguous needs into clear technical decisions.
- Strong opinions about reliability, DevOps, and operational excellence, with meticulous attention to detail.
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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.