Software Engineer, Monetization Product & Platform
OpenAIVisit OpenAI website
AI research and deployment company building and deploying frontier AI products, including ChatGPT, Codex, and its API platform.
41 current maintainers27 active leads7 new active leads120 lead step-downs17 early lead departures
San Francisco, United States
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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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About the Role
You will design, build, and scale the core infrastructure behind monetization and ads products, including advertiser-facing APIs and tools and partner integrations. You'll architect distributed systems, drive 0→1 development, and collaborate with Product, Research, and Design.
Requirements
- 7+ years of experience building high-scale consumer, enterprise, or ads-related systems
- Track record of architecting and delivering complex distributed systems
- Comfortable navigating ambiguous product spaces
- Strong product intuition
- Bonus: experience in ads systems, marketplaces, or monetization-heavy domains
Responsibilities
- Design, build, and scale core infrastructure for monetization and ads products
- Develop advertiser-facing APIs and tools for creating, managing, and measuring ads
- Build integrations with external partners and enterprise-grade monetization products
- Architect distributed systems operating at massive scale
- Translate product requirements into technical solutions
- Drive 0→1 product development through prototyping and experimentation
- Contribute to technical strategy and roadmap
- Maintain rigor through testing, documentation, and operational best practices
- Uphold safety, privacy, fairness, and policy compliance
- Refine engineering processes and best practices
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
