Software Engineer, Monetization Delivery
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 design and build the foundational backend and infrastructure behind monetization and ads systems. You'll architect large-scale distributed systems, develop APIs and internal platforms for ads creation, delivery, measurement, and optimization, and drive 0→1 development with Product, Research, and Design.
Requirements
- 10+ years of experience building and operating large-scale distributed systems
- Experience designing mission-critical systems with demanding reliability, performance, and correctness requirements
- Comfortable defining technical direction in ambiguous 0→1 environments
- Bonus: experience in ads systems, marketplaces, or AI/ML infra
Responsibilities
- Design and build foundational backend and infrastructure for monetization and ads systems
- Architect large-scale distributed systems with strict reliability, privacy, security, and performance requirements
- Develop APIs, infrastructure services, and internal platforms for ads creation, delivery, measurement, and optimization
- Translate requirements into scalable technical solutions with Product, Research, and Design
- Drive 0→1 infra development through prototyping and experimentation
- Contribute to long-term technical strategy and roadmap
- Ensure rigor through testing, documentation, observability, and operational best practices
- Build for safety, privacy, fairness, and policy alignment
- Collaborate across engineering orgs
Benefits
- Generous equity
- Performance-related bonus
- Medical, dental, and vision insurance with HSA employer contributions
- Pre-tax Health FSA, Dependent Care FSA, and commuter accounts
- 401(k) retirement plan with employer match
- Paid parental leave (up to 24 weeks for birth parents and 20 weeks for non-birthing parents)
- Paid medical and caregiver leave (up to 8 weeks)
- Flexible PTO for exempt employees
- 13+ paid company holidays and coordinated 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 assistance
- Charitable donation matching and wellness stipends
