OpenAI · 11 hours ago
Backend Software Engineer, ChatGPT Engineering
San Francisco, CA
Full-time
Onsite
Mid, Senior Level
$185K/yr - $385K/yrOpenAI is an AI research and deployment company dedicated to ensuring that general-purpose artificial intelligence benefits all of humanity. They are seeking a Backend Software Engineer to design and implement the services and infrastructure powering ChatGPT, focusing on building scalable backend systems and APIs.
Agentic AIArtificial Intelligence (AI)Foundational AIGenerative AIMachine LearningNatural Language ProcessingSaaS
Responsibilities
Architect, build, and improve scalable backend systems and APIs
Drive performance, reliability, and security across distributed services
Work closely with product, data science, and frontend teams
Implement data storage, retrieval, compute, and integration solutions
Participate in long-term architectural planning and technical design reviews
Qualification
Required
Strong experience with distributed systems, APIs, and backend languages (e.g., Go, Python, Rust, C++)
Ability to architect, build, and improve scalable backend systems and APIs
Drive performance, reliability, and security across distributed services
Work closely with product, data science, and frontend teams
Implement data storage, retrieval, compute, and integration solutions
Participate in long-term architectural planning and technical design reviews
Preferred
Enjoy building resilient services that handle large scale and complexity
Passionate about system design, reliability, and operational excellence
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.
Founded in 2015
201-500 employees
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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
Fidji Simo
CEO, Applications
Sam Altman
CEO & Co-Founder
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