Software Engineer, Scaled Abuse
Build and operate backend and data systems for real-time fraud/abuse detection, investigation, and enforcement at OpenAI. Requires 5+ years backend engineering and 2+ years fraud/abuse experience.
About the job
Responsibilities
- Design and build systems for fraud detection and remediation while balancing fraud loss, cost of implementation, and customer experience
- Work closely with finance, security, product, research, and trust & safety operations to holistically combat fraudulent and abusive actors
- Stay abreast of the latest techniques and tools to stay several steps ahead of determined and well-resourced adversaries
- Utilize GPT-5 and future models to more effectively combat fraud and abuse
Requirements
- At least 5 years of software engineering experience in backend and data systems
- At least 2 years experience in fraud or abuse analysis, investigation, and/or operations
- Ability to dive into an unfamiliar codebase, develop strong intuition about how it works end-to-end, and propose pragmatic improvements
- Voracious and intrinsic desire to learn and fill in missing skills; strong talent for sharing information clearly and concisely
- Comfortable with ambiguity and rapidly changing conditions; view changes as an opportunity to add structure and order when necessary
Nice-to-Haves
- Experience in Machine Learning techniques
Tech Stack
- Terraform, Kubernetes, Azure, Python, Postgres, Kafka
Skills
Python, Kubernetes, Terraform, Azure, Postgres, Kafka, Machine Learning, Backend Systems, Data Systems, Fraud Detection
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