3 hours ago
Base Salary
$230k - $385k/yr
Responsibilities
- Design and build backend services for permissions, authorization, and governance across ChatGPT, Codex, and OpenAI APIs.
- Develop sharing capabilities between people and agents with clear access rules and enterprise controls.
- Build reusable services and APIs supporting workspace administration and console experiences.
- Lead architecture and delivery for complex initiatives, including requirements, tradeoffs, and rollout plans.
- Translate enterprise needs into clear configuration, predictable permission behavior, and maintainable systems.
- Own the reliability, security, and performance of production services through testing, observability, debugging, and continuous improvement.
Requirements
- 9+ years of professional backend software engineering experience, excluding internships, building and operating production services.
- Deep backend expertise and experience shipping complex product or platform capabilities used by customers.
- Experience providing technical leadership for substantial initiatives and making architectural decisions while remaining hands-on.
- Strong proficiency in a backend language such as Python, Go, Rust, Java, or C++.
- Experience designing distributed services, APIs, and data models, including reliability, consistency, scalability, and performance tradeoffs.
- Experience building authorization, permissions, or enterprise governance systems.
- Strong product judgment and communication skills for translating ambiguous user and administrator needs into technical decisions.
- Experience owning production systems, diagnosing failures, and improving security, testing, observability, and operational reliability.
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.