Software Engineer, API Multicloud

OpenAI
San Francisco
Workplace: HybridFull timeUSD 293,000 - 385,000 annuallyFunction: Software EngineeringExperience: 7+ yearsSkills: ["Python","Go","Rust","TypeScript","AWS","Distributed systems","APIs"]

Join OpenAI’s API Multicloud team to extend the API platform into cloud-native environments (starting with AWS). Build backend services, APIs, and cloud infrastructure to enable developers to run OpenAI capabilities across cloud platforms, improve reliability and observability, and shape the technical direction of a growing engineering organization.

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OpenAI
OpenAI
3 months ago

Software Engineer, API Multicloud

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Job Summary

Join OpenAI’s API Multicloud team to extend the API platform into cloud-native environments (starting with AWS). Build backend services, APIs, and cloud infrastructure to enable developers to run OpenAI capabilities across cloud platforms, improve reliability and observability, and shape the technical direction of a growing engineering organization.
Location: San Francisco
Workplace: Hybrid
Employment Type: Full time · Permanent
Job Function: Software Engineering

Key Responsibilities

  • •Build backend and infrastructure systems that extend OpenAI’s API platform into cloud-native environments, like AWS.
  • •Design and ship cloud-contained products that allow customers to use OpenAI capabilities while keeping workloads and data within cloud environments.
  • •Help stand up cloud-hosted Codex experiences powered by the OpenAI Responses API.
  • •Build the infrastructure and runtime abstractions for a stateful, cloud-optimized agentic platform.
  • •Partner closely with external cloud partners as well as internal teams across Codex, Research, and Safety Systems to translate emerging capabilities into production-ready systems.

Pay and Benefits

Salary: USD 293,000 - 385,000 annually
Equity and Bonus:Equity

Key Requirements

  • •7+ years of professional engineering experience (excluding internships) in relevant roles at tech and product-driven companies.
  • •Proficient in one or more backend languages (e.g., Python, Go, Rust, TypeScript or similar) and distributed systems concepts.
  • •Experience building developer tools, especially AI-powered tools, excellent technical communication, and the ability to shape architectures that support different deployment models. Experience building cloud services is a strong plus.
  • •Experience turning ambiguous, fast-moving technical problems into pragmatic, durable systems.
  • •Experience working with cloud infrastructure primitives and production service ownership.
Experience:7+ yearsAI infrastructureCloudDeveloper toolsAPI platforms
Skills:PythonGoRustTypeScriptAWSDistributed systemsAPIs
Tech Stack:PythonGoRustTypeScriptAWSCloudDistributed systems

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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