Software Engineer, Shop/Feed AdsPosted today$347K–$445K

The opportunity

The Monetization team is a new cross-functional group spanning engineering, product, research, and design. We are building the foundational systems that will help OpenAI scale access to intelligence responsibly.

What you'll do

  • Design and build pipelines that ingest, validate, normalize, and refresh: merchant product feeds, keeping catalog information accurate and available for serving.

  • Develop scalable catalog storage and indexing systems that make large: inventories searchable and reflect changes in product availability, pricing, and attributes.

  • Build search and retrieval systems that efficiently identify relevant,: eligible products across merchant catalogs.

  • Partner with Ads ML to connect product retrieval with ranking models through: dependable interfaces, features, and serving infrastructure.

  • Engineer low-latency, high-throughput ads delivery systems with strong reliability and correctness guarantees.

  • Design real-time event pipelines and distributed storage that support catalog: freshness, serving decisions, and downstream feedback.

What they're looking for

  • Build observability and quality controls to detect feed errors, stale: inventory, indexing delays, and serving issues.
  • Define technical direction and drive complex projects from early prototypes: through production deployment and operation.
  • Operate systems with high engineering rigor through testing, monitoring,: privacy and security reviews, and strong operational practices.
  • Have extensive experience building and operating large-scale distributed: systems, with direct ownership of product ads retrieval, ranking infrastructure, or delivery.