OpenAI · 2 days ago
Backend Engineer, Consumer Products
San Francisco, CA
Full-time
Hybrid
Senior Level
7+ years expOpenAI is an AI research and deployment company dedicated to ensuring that general-purpose artificial intelligence benefits all of humanity. As a Backend Engineer, you will design and build services, APIs, and infrastructure that support evolving product needs, collaborating with cross-functional teams to ensure cohesive solutions.
Agentic AIArtificial Intelligence (AI)Foundational AIGenerative AIMachine LearningNatural Language ProcessingSaaS
Responsibilities
Architect, build, and maintain high-performance, secure backend systems
Design APIs, data models, and infrastructure to support evolving product needs
Balance near-term development velocity with long-term maintainability and scalability
Collaborate with cross-functional teams to ensure cohesive, end-to-end solutions
Qualification
Required
7+ years of professional software engineering experience, with a focus on backend systems
A proven track record of building and scaling systems from early stage to large scale
Proficient with Python and Go, and familiar with a range of server-side technologies
A strong grasp of system design, performance optimization, and security best practices
Can reason about full-stack tradeoffs from hardware through cloud infrastructure
Preferred
Experience with distributed systems and cloud architectures
A background in instrumentation, analytics, and performance tuning
Familiar with hardware-cloud integrations or applied AI services
Benefits
Relocation assistance
Company
OpenAI
OpenAI is an AI research and deployment company that develops advanced AI models, including ChatGPT. It is a sub-organization of OpenAI Foundation.
201-500 employees
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2022 (18)
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Funding
Current Stage
Growth StageTotal Funding
$79BKey Investors
The Walt Disney CompanySoftBankThrive Capital
2025-12-11Corporate Round· $1B
2025-10-02Secondary Market· $6.6B
2025-03-31Series Unknown· $40B
Leadership Team
Sam Altman
CEO & Co-Founder
Greg Brockman
President, Chairman, & Co-Founder
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