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Software Engineer, Financial Engineering

OpenAI · San Francisco

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Frontier labremotesenior$266k–$445k
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At a glance

Highlights

  • Build billing systems behind ChatGPT, Codex and API monetization.
  • Power pricing, checkout, subscriptions and usage-based billing globally.
  • Architect order-to-cash platform for consumer and enterprise products.

What they offer

  • Equity

Ideal candidate

A product-minded backend builder with 5+ years experience who thrives owning ambiguous, business-critical systems end-to-end and cares deeply about correctness, reliability and simple, trustworthy customer experiences.

Requirements

  • 5+ years building and operating production backend, platform, or distributed systems
  • Strong fundamentals in API design, data modeling, storage, transactional workflows, and event-driven architecture
  • Experience building systems where correctness, reliability, observability, security, or data integrity are critical
  • Comfortable owning ambiguous, business-critical problems from definition through launch and operation
  • Product-oriented mindset focused on simple, trustworthy experiences for external and internal users
  • Clear communicator who partners closely with Product, Finance, Accounting, Operations, Data, and GTM
  • Thoughtful tradeoffs between near-term delivery and long-term system quality
  • Moves quickly and independently amid evolving requirements and competing priorities

Lab profile

About OpenAI

Builds safe frontier AI models and products like ChatGPT for broad benefit.

What they build

  • ChatGPT
  • OpenAI API
  • Frontier AI models

Known for

  • Frontier-scale distributed ML training
  • Massive GPU fleet and data center operations
  • Exabyte-scale data lakes and streaming
  • AI alignment and safety research

Key facts

  • Operates one of the world's largest GPU fleets
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