engineering
Posted Mar 23Principal Software Engineer, B2B Engineering
at openai
United StatesRemote
Responsibilities
- experience - Build secure, reliable, and compliant systems that meet the needs of both enterprise and developer use cases - Partner closely with product, research, design, infrastructure, and forward-deployed engineering teams to bring new capabilities into production - Drive technical direction across complex problem spaces, making sound architectural tradeoffs that balance speed, quality, and long-term maintainability - Improve engineering velocity by building internal tooling, platform abstractions, and
Requirements
- We build the backend systems, APIs, and infrastructure that power how developers and organizations use OpenAI in production.
- We partner closely with product, research, design, infrastructure, and forward-deployed teams to turn cutting-edge AI capabilities into scalable, dependable products.
- You’ll lead the architecture of backend services and platform capabilities that bring new AI functionality into production safely, reliably, and at global scale.
- experience of our platform, with a high bar for performance, safety, reliability, and API design.
- experience building, scaling, and evolving production backend systems in fast-moving environments - Bring deep expertise in software engineering fundamentals, distributed systems, and API design - Are proficient in one or more backend languages such as Python, Go, Rust, or TypeScript - Have a track record of leading complex technical initiatives and driving architecture across teams or critical product areas - Care deeply about reliability, safety, security, and performance in production environments -
- experience as a founder or early engineer at a startup, or have built products and platforms from scratch About OpenAI OpenAI is an AI research and deployment company dedicated to ensuring that general-purpose artificial intelligence
Additional details
- ABOUT THE TEAM OpenAI’s B2B Engineering team brings our most capable technology to the world through our developer platform and enterprise products.
- Our work spans distributed systems, data infrastructure, platform services, and enterprise-grade capabilities like security, compliance, authentication, and reliability.
- This role spans a broad technical surface area, including distributed systems, APIs, databases, data pipelines, and secure enterprise infrastructure.
- You’ll help shape both the technical foundation and the product
- IN THIS ROLE, YOU WILL - Design, build, and scale the backend services, APIs, and infrastructure that power OpenAI’s developer and enterprise products - Lead the architecture of distributed systems, databases, and data pipelines that support large-scale, high-reliability production workloads - Own major platform capabilities end-to-end, from early technical strategy and design through implementation, launch, and long-term operation - Shape the design of our APIs with care and intentionality, treating API
- experience and interface design - Are comfortable working in ambiguous, fast-moving environments and can create clarity where little exists - Own problems end-to-end and are eager to learn whatever is needed to solve them - Build thoughtfully, move with urgency, and collaborate effectively across disciplines - Influence technical direction through strong judgment, clear communication, and consistently high-quality execution - Have