OpenAI
Backend Software Engineer, Applied Foundations
Found: May 10, 2026
This role is based in San Francisco.
Compensation:
$185K – $385K + Offers Equity
Responsibilities:
- 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 adversarial attacks.
Requirements:
- Strong experience with distributed systems, APIs, and backend languages (e.g., Go, Python, Rust, C++).
- Experience setting up and maintaining production backend services and data pipelines.
- A humble attitude and eagerness to help colleagues.
- Enjoy building resilient services that handle large scale and complexity.
- Self-directed and capable of solving problems independently.