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Software Engineer, Scaled Abuse

230k – 385kSan Francisco, CAOnsite5+ YOE
Summary

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 role

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
PythonKubernetesTerraformAzurePostgreSQLKafkaMachine LearningBackend SystemsData SystemsFraud Detection
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