engineering
Posted May 7Backend Software Engineer, Applied Foundations
at openai
San Francisco, United StatesRemote
Responsibilities
- What You’ll Do - 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 and mitigate adversarial attacks without compromising user experience.
Requirements
- experience with distributed systems, APIs, and backend languages (e.g., Go, Python, Rust, C++). - Have
- experience setting up and maintaining production backend services and data pipelines. - Have a humble attitude, an eagerness to help your colleagues, and a desire to do whatever it takes to make the team succeed. - Enjoy building resilient services that handle large scale and complexity. - Are self-directed and enjoy figuring out the best way to solve a particular problem - Own problems end-to-end, and are willing to pick up whatever knowledge you're missing to get the job done.
- About OpenAI OpenAI is an AI research and deployment company dedicated to ensuring that general-purpose artificial intelligence
Additional details
- The Applied Foundations team owns the core product and platform layers that make those experiences possible — from identity & access, to safety to payments & commerce across all of our apps.
- Our teams span product engineering, infrastructure, and safety, working together to deliver technology that is reliable, secure, and trusted at global scale.
- About the Role We’re hiring Backend Software Engineers to design and implement safe services and infrastructure that power our core products.