OpenAI

Staff Backend Engineer, Financial Engineering

OpenAI
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Base Salary

$266k - $445k/yr

Responsibilities

  • Design and build systems for purchasing, payments, subscriptions, and billing across OpenAI products and global markets.
  • Build product catalogs, SKUs, bundles, workspace systems, and entitlement systems connecting purchases to product access.
  • Develop metering systems, data pipelines, and APIs that produce accurate bills, spending information, and traceable records from high-volume usage.
  • Ensure charges and product access remain correct across retries, delayed updates, and service failures.
  • Create reusable foundations for launching new products, pricing, and payment options.
  • Scale and evolve live systems while protecting customer access, financial accuracy, performance, and security.
  • Own technical problems from design through launch and operation while collaborating with product, design, finance, and engineering teams.
  • Use customer feedback and experiments to simplify complex financial workflows for customers and internal teams.

Requirements

  • Strong backend engineering experience appropriate for a Staff+ role.
  • Experience with payments, subscriptions, pricing, billing, or systems managing customer purchases and revenue is preferred.
  • Experience with product catalogs, packaging and bundles, workspace management, entitlements, or usage metering is preferred.
  • Experience building financial or transaction systems at scale, reconciling records across systems, or supporting compliance and audits is preferred.

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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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