Software Engineer, API Enterprise Controls
AI research and deployment company building and deploying frontier AI products, including ChatGPT, Codex, and its API platform.
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About OpenAI
OpenAI’s mission is to ensure artificial general intelligence benefits all of humanity. It consists of the nonprofit OpenAI Foundation and OpenAI Group, a public benefit corporation governed by the Foundation.
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Candidate Availability
Required and preferred rules are kept separate and reflect the wording in the original posting.
About the Role
You will help define and ship the enterprise capabilities the API Platform needs to scale. You will work across databases, streaming systems, request routing, authentication, and developer-facing APIs, lead large cross-functional initiatives, work with Product and go-to-market teams and sophisticated customers, and carry needs from discovery through design, launch, and iteration.
Requirements
- 9+ years of professional engineering experience in backend, platform, or product-driven roles
- Exceptional backend depth with product judgment and a track record shipping API or platform capabilities
- Experience leading large cross-functional initiatives
- Proficiency in Python, Go, Rust, TypeScript, or similar
- Experience with distributed systems, databases, streaming, request routing, authentication and identity, networking, or enterprise controls
- Strong communication and developer empathy
- Strong opinions about reliability, DevOps, and operational excellence
Responsibilities
- Own backend product capabilities end to end across authentication and identity, service accounts and key controls, secure networking, compliance, observability, and operational workflows
- Partner with Product, go-to-market, security, infrastructure teams, and customers to shape the roadmap and lead cross-functional projects
- Design developer-facing APIs, system behavior, configuration, error handling, safe defaults, auditing, and notifications
- Build, operate, and debug reliable backend systems spanning databases, streaming, request routing, and distributed services
Benefits
- Medical, dental, and vision insurance with employer HSA contributions
- Pre-tax Health FSA, Dependent Care FSA, and commuter accounts
- 401(k) with employer match
- Paid parental leave (up to 24 weeks for birth parents and 20 weeks for non-birthing parents) plus paid medical and caregiver leave (up to 8 weeks)
- Flexible PTO for exempt employees; up to 15 days annually for non-exempt employees
- 13+ paid company holidays and paid company office closures
- Paid sick or safe time
- Mental health and wellness support
- Employer-paid basic life and disability coverage
- Annual learning and development stipend
- Daily meals in offices and meal delivery credits
- Relocation support for eligible employees
- Charitable donation matching and wellness stipends
- Equity
- Performance-related bonus
