Staff Backend Engineer, Financial Engineering
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 systems for purchasing, payments, subscriptions and billing, build product catalogs, entitlements and metering pipelines, and keep charges and access correct under failures. You will own problems from design through launch and operation with product, design, finance and engineering teams.
Requirements
- Staff+ engineer with strong backend experience
Responsibilities
- Design and build systems for purchasing, payments, subscriptions and billing
- Build product catalogs, SKUs and bundles
- Develop workspace and entitlement systems
- Keep charges and product access correct under retries, late updates and service failures
- Build metering systems, data pipelines and APIs for accurate billing
- Create reusable building blocks for launching offerings and pricing
- Simplify complex financial workflows using customer feedback and experiments
- Scale and evolve live systems while protecting access, accuracy, performance and security
- Own problems from design through launch and operation
Benefits
- Equity
- Performance-related bonus
- Medical, dental, and vision insurance with HSA employer contributions
- Health FSA, Dependent Care FSA, and commuter pre-tax 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
- 13+ paid company holidays and 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