Software Engineer, Financial Engineering
OpenAI · San Francisco
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Frontier labremotesenior$266k–$445k
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