# Full Stack Software Engineer

**Company:** [OpenAI](https://hotfix.jobs/companies/openai)
**Location:** San Francisco, CA, Seattle, WA
**Role:** Fullstack Engineering
**Salary:** $255k – $405k/yr
**Experience:** 5+ years
**Skills:** TypeScript, Rust, Frontend Development, Backend Development, Cloud Infrastructure, Ai Agent Workflows, Prompt Engineering, Developer Tooling, Observability, Scalability
**Posted:** 2026-06-11

> Build end-to-end AI-powered developer tools and workflows spanning frontend, backend, agents, and cloud infrastructure. Own complete product experiences from design through production for Codex IDE and terminal interfaces.

## Job Description

## Responsibilities
- Build end-to-end product experiences spanning frontend applications, backend services, agent workflows, cloud infrastructure, and developer tooling
- Design AI-powered workflows that generalize across software engineering teams, languages, codebases, and development practices
- Discover and implement novel ways to apply AI to eliminate friction throughout the software development lifecycle
- Partner closely with product, design, and research to translate insights into shipped product improvements
- Work directly with users (OpenAI developers, open-source contributors, startups, enterprises) to understand pain points and validate solutions
- Improve reliability, observability, scalability, and performance of systems and workflows

## Requirements
- Strong software engineering fundamentals and experience building production systems
- Experience with TypeScript, Rust, or similar systems/application programming languages
- Deep familiarity with modern software development tools, workflows, and engineering practices
- Experience using AI-assisted development tools and intuition for their strengths, weaknesses, and opportunities
- Desire to own products and features end-to-end from conception through launch and iteration
- Strong product judgment and bias toward learning from real user feedback
- Creativity in reframing problems, challenging assumptions, and inventing new workflows

## Nice-to-Haves
- Experience building developer tools
- Deep thinking about how software gets built
- Excitement about redefining workflows in the age of AI

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