OpenAI

Software Engineer, Ads Manager

OpenAI
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5 months ago

Base Salary

$230k - $385k/yr

Responsibilities

  • Design, build, and scale Ads Manager, the core UI platform for advertisers to create, manage, measure, and optimize campaigns.
  • Develop advertiser-facing APIs and tools for programmatic campaign creation, management, targeting, delivery, measurement, and optimization.
  • Build conversion APIs, pixels, insights, and measurement tooling for campaign performance analysis and improvement.
  • Create self-serve campaign workflows for small and mid-sized advertisers.
  • Build enterprise integrations for large advertisers, agencies, and external ad-tech platforms.
  • Architect distributed systems and services with strong reliability, usability, privacy, and performance guarantees.
  • Partner with Product, Design, Research, and Go-To-Market teams to translate advertiser needs into technical solutions.
  • Drive 0→1 product development through prototyping, experimentation, and iterative deployment.
  • Contribute to technical strategy, new directions, and the advertiser platform roadmap.
  • Maintain engineering rigor through testing, documentation, observability, and operational practices.
  • Uphold safety, privacy, fairness, and policy compliance across advertiser-facing systems.

Requirements

  • 7+ years of experience building high-scale consumer, enterprise, marketplace, or ads-related systems.
  • Experience architecting and delivering complex distributed systems, APIs, or advertiser-facing platforms.
  • Experience building with Python, FastAPI, TypeScript, and React.
  • Ability to build both intuitive UI workflows and robust backend systems for external customers.
  • Strong product intuition and the ability to translate advertiser needs into reliable, scalable product experiences.
  • Comfort navigating ambiguous product spaces and contributing to technical roadmaps and long-term direction.
  • Experience working in 0→1 environments where systems, architecture, and user experiences are defined from scratch.
  • Clear communication, holistic thinking, and decisions grounded in user needs and long-term sustainability.
  • Motivation to build privacy-preserving, safe, and user-first monetization systems.
  • Preferred experience with ads managers, campaign management systems, advertiser APIs, conversion APIs, pixels, measurement systems, marketplaces, or enterprise ad-tech integrations.

Benefits

  • Exclusively based in the Seattle office.
  • Relocation assistance is offered to new employees.

Tech Stack

Categories

OpenAI

About OpenAI

10,000+ employees

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.

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