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OpenAIOpenAISan Francisco, CA

Backend Software Engineer, Applied Foundations

Designs and implements scalable backend systems, APIs, and infrastructure powering core AI products like ChatGPT. Focuses on performance, reliability, safety at global scale, and mitigating adversarial attacks using languages like Go, Python, Rust.

185k – 385k
On-siteBackend Engineering

About the role

What You’ll Do

  • Architect, build, and improve scalable backend systems and APIs.
  • Drive performance, reliability, and safety across distributed services.
  • Implement data storage, retrieval, compute, and integration solutions.
  • Participate in long-term architectural planning and technical design reviews.
  • Collaborate with cross-functional teams to design solutions that protect against and mitigate adversarial attacks without compromising user experience.

You Might Thrive Here If You

  • Have strong experience with distributed systems, APIs, and backend languages (e.g., Go, Python, Rust, C++).
  • Have experience setting up and maintaining production backend services and data pipelines.

Skills

GoPythonRustC++Distributed SystemsAPIsData PipelinesBackend Services
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