Backend Engineer, Consumer Devices

OpenAI
San Francisco
Workplace: HybridFull timeUSD 293,000 - 325,000 annuallyFunction: Software EngineeringExperience: 7+ yearsSkills: ["Collaboration","Communication","Problem-solving"]

Join a high-performing Software Engineering team building scalable, secure backend systems, APIs, and infrastructure to power OpenAI consumer products. You’ll design data models and services across hardware-to-cloud contexts, balancing rapid development with long-term maintainability. This role emphasizes collaboration with cross-functional teams, strong system design, and the ability to scale complex backend systems in a hybrid San Francisco environment.

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OpenAI
OpenAI
7 months ago

Backend Engineer, Consumer Devices

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Job Summary

Join a high-performing Software Engineering team building scalable, secure backend systems, APIs, and infrastructure to power OpenAI consumer products. You’ll design data models and services across hardware-to-cloud contexts, balancing rapid development with long-term maintainability. This role emphasizes collaboration with cross-functional teams, strong system design, and the ability to scale complex backend systems in a hybrid San Francisco environment.
Location: San Francisco
Workplace: Hybrid
Employment Type: Full time
Job Function: Software Engineering

Key Responsibilities

  • •Architect, build, and maintain high-performance, secure backend systems.
  • •Design APIs, data models, and infrastructure to support evolving product needs.
  • •Balance near-term development velocity with long-term maintainability and scalability.
  • •Collaborate with cross-functional teams to ensure cohesive, end-to-end solutions.
  • •Guide technical decisions with deep understanding of backend systems from hardware to cloud.

Pay and Benefits

Salary: USD 293,000 - 325,000 annually
Equity and Bonus:Equity
Perks:Relocation

Key Requirements

  • •7+ years of professional software engineering experience, with a focus on backend systems.
  • •Proficiency with Python and Go, and familiarity with a range of server-side technologies.
  • •Strong grasp of system design, performance optimization, and security best practices.
  • •Ability to reason about full-stack tradeoffs from hardware through cloud infrastructure.
  • •Nice to have: distributed systems and cloud architectures; instrumentation, analytics, and performance tuning; hardware-cloud integrations or applied AI services.
Experience:7+ yearsAISoftware as a Service
Skills:CollaborationCommunicationProblem-solving
Tech Stack:PythonGoAPIsData modelingDistributed systemsCloudSystem designSecurityHardware-to-cloud

Company Brief

OpenAI
Develops and deploys advanced generative AI models (including ChatGPT and DALL·E) and AI infrastructure, providing APIs and consumer products to accelerate safe AGI for broad benefit.
Industry: AI & Machine Learning
Company Size: Enterprise (1,001+ employees)
Revenue: USD 1B+
Growth: Scaleup
Valuation: Hectocorn (USD 100B+)
Funding: Series E+
Headquarters: San Francisco, United States
Founded: 2015
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Glassdoor: 4.4
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