Software Engineer, Backend
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'll build the backend systems that power the Dots product, working closely with product, design, and engineering to turn ideas into reliable services. You'll design and maintain services and APIs, develop data models, improve database performance, build third-party integrations, and investigate production issues to address root causes.
Requirements
- Experience building and operating backend applications in production
- Strong proficiency in a backend programming language
- Solid understanding of API design, relational databases, and data modeling
- Experience with cloud infrastructure, automated testing, and deployment workflows
- Ability to balance speed with quality and make practical technical decisions
- Clear communication and a collaborative approach to solving problems
Responsibilities
- Design, build, and maintain backend services and APIs
- Develop data models and improve database performance
- Build integrations with third-party services
- Improve system reliability, security, and observability
- Write tested, maintainable code and participate in code reviews
- Investigate production issues and address their root causes
- Help shape technical decisions as the product grows
Benefits
- Equity
- 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 birth parents, 20 weeks non-birthing parents)
- Paid medical and caregiver leave (up to 8 weeks)
- Flexible PTO for exempt employees; up to 15 days for non-exempt
- 13+ paid company holidays and coordinated 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
