The opportunity
OpenAI’s Applications Engineering organization builds and operates the products (such as ChatGPT & Codex) that bring our cutting-edge research to millions of users and developers worldwide.
What you'll do
Architect, build, and improve scalable backend systems and APIs.
Drive performance, reliability, and safety across distributed services.
Implement data storage, retrieval, compute, and integration solutions.
Participate in long-term architectural planning and technical design reviews.
Collaborate with cross-functional teams to design solutions that protect: against and mitigate adversarial attacks without compromising user experience.
Have strong experience with distributed systems, APIs, and backend languages (e.g., Go, Python, Rust, C++).
What they're looking for
- Have experience setting up and maintaining production backend services and data pipelines.
- Have a humble attitude, an eagerness to help your colleagues, and a desire to: do whatever it takes to make the team succeed.
- Enjoy building resilient services that handle large scale and complexity.
- Are self-directed and enjoy figuring out the best way to solve a particular problem
