The opportunity
OpenAI’s Applied AI organization turns our latest model capabilities into products used by hundreds of millions of consumers, developers, and organizations worldwide. Our teams build the product experiences and platform foundations behind ChatGPT, Codex, our API platform, and…
What you'll do
Have 5+ years of professional software engineering experience building and: operating production backend, platform, or distributed systems.
Have strong fundamentals in API design, data modeling, storage systems,: transactional workflows, and event-driven architecture.
Have experience building systems where correctness, reliability,: observability, security, or data integrity are especially important.
Are comfortable owning ambiguous, business-critical problems from initial: definition through launch and long-term operation.
Bring a product-oriented mindset and care about creating simple, trustworthy: experiences for both external customers and internal users.
Communicate clearly with technical and non-technical partners and enjoy: working closely with Product, Finance, Accounting, Operations, Data, and Go-to-Market teams.
What they're looking for
- Make thoughtful tradeoffs between near-term delivery and long-term system quality.
- Move quickly and independently in an environment where requirements evolve,: priorities compete, and the right solution is not always obvious.
- Experience with payments, subscriptions, billing, pricing, credits,: entitlements, invoicing, revenue systems, or other monetization infrastructure.
- Experience with high-scale financial or transactional systems, reconciliation: workflows, compliance requirements, or audit controls.
