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OpenAI · 22 hours ago

Software Engineer, Backend

positionSan Francisco, CA
timeFull-time
remoteOnsite
seniorityMid, Senior Level
money$255K/yr - $405K/yr
date6+ years exp

OpenAI is an AI research and deployment company dedicated to ensuring that general-purpose artificial intelligence benefits all of humanity. They are seeking backend engineers to design and scale the systems that drive customer-facing products, focusing on building robust services and infrastructure to support their AI applications.

Agentic AIArtificial Intelligence (AI)Foundational AIGenerative AIMachine LearningNatural Language ProcessingSaaS
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Growth Opportunities
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H1B Sponsor Likelynote

Responsibilities

Design and build robust backend services and APIs that power products like ChatGPT and the OpenAI API
Develop scalable data pipelines and storage systems for high-volume, low-latency workloads
Improve system reliability, observability, and security across production environments
Collaborate with product and research teams to translate cutting-edge AI into dependable, user-ready features
Participate in an on-call rotation to maintain uptime and respond to critical incidents

Qualification

Backend languagesDistributed systemsData pipelinesSystem reliabilityCollaborationProblem-solvingAttention to detail

Required

Up to 6 years of professional software engineering experience
Proficient in one or more backend languages (e.g., Python, Go, Rust, or similar) and distributed systems concepts
Enjoy building infrastructure that supports billions of requests and petabytes of data
Care deeply about reliability, safety, and performance in production environments

Company

OpenAI

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OpenAI is an AI research and deployment company that develops advanced AI models, including ChatGPT. It is a sub-organization of OpenAI Foundation.
dateFounded in 2015
location
San Francisco, California, USA
people-size201-500 employees
web-link
https://www.openai.com

H1B Sponsorship

OpenAI has a track record of offering H1B sponsorships. Please note that this does not guarantee sponsorship for this specific role. Below presents additional info for your reference. (Data Powered by US Department of Labor)
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Trends of Total Sponsorships
2025 (1)
2024 (1)
2023 (1)
2022 (18)
2021 (10)
2020 (6)

Funding

Current Stage
Growth Stage
Total Funding
$79B
Key Investors
The Walt Disney CompanySoftBankThrive Capital
2025-12-11Corporate Round· $1B
2025-10-02Secondary Market· $6.6B
2025-03-31Series Unknown· $40B

Leadership Team

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Sam Altman
CEO & Co-Founder
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Greg Brockman
President, Chairman, & Co-Founder
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