OpenAI · 6 hours ago
Backend Software Engineer - B2B Connectors
Buffalo-Niagara Area
Full-time
Hybrid
Senior Level
5+ years expOpenAI is an AI research and deployment company dedicated to ensuring that general-purpose artificial intelligence benefits all of humanity. They are seeking an infrastructure-focused engineer to build and operate systems that ensure the reliability of their B2B Connectors, which integrate OpenAI products with various business systems.
Agentic AIArtificial Intelligence (AI)Foundational AIGenerative AIMachine LearningNatural Language ProcessingSaaS
Responsibilities
Design and operate the infrastructure that powers connector sync, indexing, and retrieval at scale (job orchestration, queues, storage, caching, backpressure)
Build the “control plane” primitives for connectors: rollout controls, configuration management, permissions, policy enforcement, and kill switches
Own reliability and operational excellence: SLOs, monitoring/alerting, incident response, postmortems, on-call health, and capacity planning
Create guardrails for safe multi-tenant execution: isolation boundaries, secrets handling, rate limits, abuse prevention, and blast-radius reduction
Partner with security and compliance teams to ensure enterprise requirements are met (audibility, least privilege, data retention, and secure-by-default architecture)
Improve developer velocity via internal tooling: local dev workflows, canary environments, load testing, and observability dashboards
Qualification
Required
5+ years of professional engineering experience (excluding internships) in infra / SRE / platform roles at tech and product-driven companies
Strong distributed systems fundamentals and production instincts (availability, latency, correctness, resilience)
Experience building and operating services with meaningful uptime and scale requirements (multi-region is a plus)
Proficient in one or more backend languages (e.g. Python, Rust) and comfortable working close to systems concerns (networking, storage, queueing)
Deep familiarity with observability (metrics, logs, tracing), incident management, and reliability engineering practices
Comfortable navigating ambiguous problem spaces and pushing pragmatic solutions into production
Preferred
Interest in AI/ML is a plus, but not required
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
H1B Sponsorship
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2025 (1)
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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
Fidji Simo
CEO, Applications
Sam Altman
CEO & Co-Founder
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