Mountain View, California, United States · Hybrid
$293k–$385k/yr
About the Team The Monetization Data Systems team builds the trusted data and product systems that power how the company develops, measures, and improves monetization products. We bring together product usage, pricing, b…
Skills: Software Engineering, Distributed Systems, Backend Services, Go, Java
San Francisco, California, United States · Hybrid
$239k–$265k/yr
About the Team Our GTM Strategy & Operations team builds the systems, insights, and operating rhythms that help scale Enterprise revenue growth. In this role, you’ll partner closely with the broader GTM Strategy & Operat…
Skills: GTM strategy, Sales operations, Business operations, Strategic planning, Data analysis
Tokyo, Japan · Hybrid
About the Team The AI Deployment Engineering team is responsible for ensuring the safe and effective deployment of Generative AI applications for developers and enterprises. We act as a trusted advisor and thought partne…
Skills: Python, JavaScript, Generative AI, LLM, Software engineering
San Francisco, California, United States · Hybrid
$295k–$445k/yr
About the Team OpenAI is at the center of some of the highest-impact multimodal work in AI. ChatGPT serves a massive global audience, and enables diverse interactions via text, speech, and visuals. As interactive surface…
Skills: Multimodal safety, Vision-language models, Modality fusion, Image encoders, Post-training
San Francisco, California, United States · On-site
$380k–$420k/yr
About the Team OpenAI's GTM Partnerships team builds a strategic, global partner ecosystem to accelerate customer success, enable enterprise AI adoption, and drive durable growth in support of OpenAI's mission toward AGI…
Skills: Strategic alliances, Global systems integrator partnerships, Executive relationship management, Go-to-market strategy, Commercial execution
San Francisco, California, United States · On-site
$295k–$445k/yr
About the Team Preparedness is a critical Safety Research team at OpenAI, which is focused on mitigating AI threats to global security that could scale to an extreme level of severity. Our work involves: Measurement. Mon…
Skills: Machine learning research, AI safety, Red-teaming, Model evaluation, Threat modeling
United States · Hybrid
$185k–$240k/yr
About the Team OpenAI’s Industrial Compute organization is building the infrastructure required to support the next generation of AI at unprecedented scale. Through a combination of strategic partnerships and self-built …
Skills: EHS strategy, Data center infrastructure, Risk assessment, Construction safety, Electrical safety
United States · Remote OK
$185k–$285k/yr
About the Team OpenAI is evaluating multiple infrastructure pathways, including powered land, colo/BTS, and NeoCloud opportunities. The Site Readiness & Development team provides the diligence layer needed to compare opp…
Skills: Data center development, Mission-critical facilities, MEP engineering, Colocation operations, Commissioning
San Francisco, California, United States · Hybrid
$189k–$210k/yr
About the Team At OpenAI, our Trust, Safety & Risk Operations teams safeguard our products, users, and the company from abuse, fraud, scams, regulatory non-compliance, and other emerging risks. We operate at the intersec…
Skills: Trust and safety, Content moderation, Incident response, Fraud prevention, Escalations management
San Francisco, California, United States · Hybrid
$295k–$555k/yr
About the Team The Personalization-Memory team, within OpenAI's broader Personal AGI organization, is focused on developing agents that can learn from prior interactions in order to become more helpful and efficient over…
Skills: Reinforcement learning, Memory architecture, Post-training, Machine learning, Research engineering
San Francisco, California, United States · Hybrid
$295k–$555k/yr
About the Team The Personalization-Memory team, within OpenAI's broader Personal AGI organization, is focused on developing agents that can learn from prior interactions in order to become more helpful and efficient over…
Skills: Reinforcement learning, Frontier model post-training, Machine learning, Data evaluation, Dataset creation
Delhi, Delhi, India · Hybrid
About the Team The AI Deployment Engineering team is responsible for ensuring the safe and effective deployment of Generative AI applications for developers and enterprises. We act as a trusted advisor and thought partne…
Skills: Generative AI, Technical consulting, Enterprise architecture, Python, Javascript
San Francisco, California, United States · Hybrid
$252k–$280k/yr
About the Team Critical Harm Operations sits within User Safety & Risk Operations and builds enforcement systems for Frontier Risk and Material Harm that are accurate, fast, defensible, and built to scale. We turn policy…
Skills: Program management, Strategy and operations, Product operations, Technical program management, Trust and safety
San Francisco, California, United States · On-site
$295k–$445k/yr
About the team Preparedness is a critical Safety Research team at OpenAI, which is focused on mitigating AI threats to global security that could scale to an extreme level of severity. Our work involves: Measurement. M…
Skills: Deep learning, Transformer models, PyTorch, TensorFlow, Data structures
San Francisco, California, United States · Hybrid
$225k–$300k/yr
About the Team Industrial Compute is building the infrastructure ecosystem that enables OpenAI to train and deploy increasingly capable AI systems at unprecedented scale. The organization operates across compute supply, …
Skills: Strategic operations, Compute infrastructure, Stakeholder management, Executive communication, Analytical rigor
San Francisco, California, United States · Hybrid
$158k–$175k/yr
About the Team OpenAI Finance ensures the organization is positioned for long-term success as we pursue our mission. The Order to Cash (OTC) team oversees the complete flow of commercial transactions from order intake an…
Skills: Billing operations, Order management, Cloud marketplaces, Usage-based billing, Partner billing
San Francisco, California, United States · Hybrid
$164k–$208k/yr
About the Team OpenAI’s Compute organization is building the physical infrastructure required to support the next generation of AI systems. We are developing and scaling large, complex data center campuses that integrate…
Skills: Construction management, Data center infrastructure, Project scheduling, Contractor management, Commissioning
San Francisco, California, United States · On-site
$293k–$385k/yr
About the Team API Agents builds the shared agent harness, tools, and infrastructure that turn OpenAI’s frontier models into systems that can reliably complete real work. We carry the capabilities behind Codex into a muc…
Skills: Backend engineering, Infrastructure, Distributed systems, Python, Go
San Francisco, California, United States · On-site
$226k–$285k/yr
About the Team The Industrial Compute team is responsible for building the physical infrastructure that powers OpenAI’s largest-scale AI systems. We design, deploy, and operate next-generation compute infrastructure acro…
Skills: Technical program management, Infrastructure operations, Cloud operations, Service delivery, Technical account management
San Francisco, California, United States · On-site
$252k–$280k/yr
ABOUT THE TEAM Critical Harm Operations sits within User Safety & Risk Operations and builds enforcement systems for Frontier Risk and Material Harm that are accurate, fast, defensible, and built to scale. The Cyber vert…
Skills: Cybersecurity, Operations strategy, Threat intelligence, Incident response, Security research
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Design and operate scalable backend services and data platforms to support monetization, billing, and financial workflows. Partner with cross-functional teams to translate business requirements into robust, reliable, and secure technical solutions.
Requires at least 5 years of professional software engineering experience with deep expertise in building production-grade distributed systems. Proficiency in at least one general-purpose language like Go, Java, Python, Rust, or C++ is essential.
The Monetization Data Systems team builds the trusted data and product systems that power how the company develops, measures, and improves monetization products. We bring together product usage, pricing, billing, ads, payments, and financial data to help Product, Engineering, Finance, and GTM teams make better decisions and deliver reliable customer experiences.
We work at the intersection of data engineering, product engineering, platform engineering, Finance, and GTM. Our goal is to turn complex monetization and financial data into accurate, explainable, and timely data products while building systems that scale with the growth and complexity of the business.
We are looking for a Senior Software Engineer to design and build the next generation of our monetization data platform. You will own high-impact platform systems end to end, from architecture and implementation through testing, deployment, observability, and ongoing operation.
This is a hands-on role for an engineer who enjoys solving ambiguous customer and business problems, designing durable systems, and partnering closely with Product, Data, Finance, Accounting, and GTM. You will help define technical direction, raise the engineering bar, and turn monetization opportunities into reliable, scalable product experiences and platform capabilities.
Design, improve, and operate reliable, scalable backend services that power pricing, billing, ads, payments, entitlements, and other monetization platform capabilities.
Own the architecture and implementation of critical workflows relevant to monetization data, data contracts, and integrations across product and business systems.
Establish strong guarantees for correctness, availability, security, performance, reconciliation, and auditability across business-critical systems.
Build reusable platform capabilities and developer tools that enable product teams to launch, measure, and iterate on monetization products quickly and safely.
Partner with Product, Design, Data, Finance, Accounting, and GTM teams to translate customer and business needs into robust technical solutions.
Lead the technical design and delivery of complex, cross-functional projects, using clear system designs and RFCs to align partners before implementation and making sound tradeoffs among product velocity, scalability, reliability, and maintainability.
Improve the observability and operational excellence of critical services, including monitoring, incident response, root-cause analysis, capacity planning, and long-term remediation.
Mentor other engineers, contribute to architecture and code reviews, write clear documentation, and share knowledge across teams to elevate the broader engineering organization.
Possess a minimum of 7+ years of professional software engineering experience with deep experience building and operating production software systems, backend services, or distributed systems at scale.
Are highly proficient in at least one general-purpose programming language such as Go, Java, Python, Rust, or C++, with strong computer science fundamentals.
Have strong fundamentals in API design, data modeling, storage systems, distributed systems, and event-driven architecture.
Have designed systems with rigorous correctness, reliability, observability, security, privacy, or access-control requirements.
Can collaborate with cross-functional partners to identify needs, navigate ambiguity, and drive progress from problem definition through delivery.
Bring a product-oriented mindset and communicate clearly with technical and non-technical partners, translating customer and business problems into simple, scalable system designs.
Care deeply about correctness and operational reliability while maintaining a practical bias toward delivering customer and business value.
Bring a strong sense of engineering excellence, using clear thinking, sound judgment, and a design-before-implementation approach to create maintainable systems.
Command strong sense of engineering excellence, contribute to a design-before-implementation approach with clear documentation, and knowledge sharing across teams to elevate the broader engineering organization.
Experience with monetization, pricing, billing, ads, payments, entitlements, subscriptions, or other financial products.
Familiarity with financial correctness, reconciliation, compliance, or audit requirements.
Experience with high-scale distributed systems, transactional workflows, event streaming, or payment infrastructure.
Experience building internal platforms, shared frameworks, APIs, or developer tooling used by other engineering teams.
Monetization or finance domain experience is helpful but not required. We value strong software engineering judgment, systems thinking, and the ability to learn a complex domain quickly.
OpenAI is an AI research and deployment company dedicated to ensuring that general-purpose artificial intelligence benefits all of humanity. We push the boundaries of the capabilities of AI systems and seek to safely deploy them to the world through our products. AI is an extremely powerful tool that must be created with safety and human needs at its core, and to achieve our mission, we must encompass and value the many different perspectives, voices, and experiences that form the full spectrum of humanity.
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At OpenAI, we believe artificial intelligence has the potential to help people solve immense global challenges, and we want the upside of AI to be widely shared. Join us in shaping the future of technology.
OpenAI is an AI research and deployment company dedicated to ensuring that general-purpose artificial intelligence benefits all of humanity. AI is an extremely powerful tool that must be created with safety and human needs at its core. OpenAI is dedicated to putting that alignment of interests first — ahead of profit. To achieve our mission, we must encompass and value the many different perspectives, voices, and experiences that form the full spectrum of humanity. Our investment in diversity, equity, and inclusion is ongoing, executed through a wide range of initiatives, and championed and supported by leadership. At OpenAI, we believe artificial intelligence has the potential to help people solve immense global challenges, and we want the upside of AI to be widely shared. Join us in shaping the future of technology.
Offices: San Francisco, CA 94110, US
OpenAI is an AI research and deployment company dedicated to ensuring that general-purpose artificial intelligence benefits all of humanity. AI is an extremely powerful tool that must be created with safety and human needs at its core. OpenAI is dedicated to putting that alignment of interests first — ahead of profit. To achieve our mission, we must encompass and value the many different perspectives, voices, and experiences that form the full spectrum of humanity. Our investment in diversity, equity, and inclusion is ongoing, executed through a wide range of initiatives, and championed and supported by leadership. At OpenAI, we believe artificial intelligence has the potential to help people solve immense global challenges, and we want the upside of AI to be widely shared. Join us in shaping the future of technology.
Offices: San Francisco, CA 94110, US
