OpenAI
Software Engineer, Backend (Knowledge Innovation)
Found: December 4, 2025
This role is based in San Francisco and Seattle.
Compensation:
$255K – $405K/year + Offers Equity
Responsibilities:
- Design, build, and maintain backend services and APIs for intelligent automation and knowledge systems.
- Integrate and structure data across internal platforms for AI workflows.
- Collaborate with product, research, and engineering teams to integrate OpenAI models.
- Own the full development lifecycle of new backend systems.
- Build with scale and maintainability in mind while iterating on new ideas.
Requirements:
- 4+ years of backend engineering experience.
- Proficiency in Python, FastAPI, and Postgres.
- Experience designing and scaling distributed systems or APIs.
- Interest in AI/ML and structured knowledge representation.