engineering
Posted Jun 10Software Engineer, API Multicloud
at openai
San Francisco, United StatesRemote
Responsibilities
- - Design and ship cloud-contained products that allow customers to use OpenAI capabilities while keeping workloads and data within cloud environments.
- - Build the infrastructure and runtime abstractions for a stateful, cloud-optimized agentic platform.
Requirements
- The team’s mission is to distribute OpenAI’s API broadly and safely by enabling key API technologies in cloud-native environments, in close partnership with Amazon and internal teams across Codex, Research, Safety Systems, and Applied.
- This work sits at the intersection of production ML systems, developer platforms, model behavior, and large-scale infrastructure.
- About the Role We’re looking for a backend engineer who can quickly understand OpenAI’s models, products, and systems, then adapt first-party deployments for other cloud platforms.
- You’ll build backend services, APIs, SDK integrations, authentication flows, and cloud service infrastructure that let developers use OpenAI capabilities in the cloud environments where they already build.
- It’s a strong fit for engineers who have built developer tools, especially AI-powered tools, communicate clearly across technical boundaries, and can shape architectures that support different deployment models;
- you will: - Build backend and infrastructure systems that extend OpenAI’s API platform into cloud-native environments, like AWS.
- - Help stand up cloud-hosted Codex experiences powered by the OpenAI Responses API.
- experience (excluding internships) in relevant roles at tech and product-driven companies. - Proficient in one or more backend languages (e.g., Python, Go, Rust, Typescript or similar) and distributed systems concepts. -
- Experience building developer tools, especially AI-powered tools, excellent technical communication, and the ability to shape architectures that support different deployment models.
- Experience building cloud services is a strong plus. -
- Experience working with cloud infrastructure primitives and production service ownership. -
- Experience collaborating cross-functionally with platform, research, safety, or external partner teams is a plus. - Interest in AI infrastructure, agentic systems, and developer platforms. - Interest in AI/ML (direct
- experience not required) - Proven ability to thrive in fast-growing, product-driven companies by effectively navigating loosely defined tasks and managing competing priorities or deadlines.
- About OpenAI OpenAI is an AI research and deployment company dedicated to ensuring that general-purpose artificial intelligence
Experience
- Your background might look something like: - 7+ years of professional engineering
Contact
- About the Team OpenAI’s API Multicloud team is responsible for extending OpenAI’s API platform into strategic cloud environments, starting with AWS https://openai.com/index/openai-on-aws/.
Additional details
- The team is focused on bringing core developer and enterprise capabilities into cloud-native environments, including cloud-hosted Codex, model customization / post-training as a service, and new stateful runtime environments for agentic workloads.
- This role involves working across teams, sometimes embedded with partner product groups, to ship products quickly and across multiple platforms at the same time.
- - Partner closely with external cloud partners as well as internal teams across Codex, Research, and Safety Systems to translate emerging capabilities into production-ready systems.
- - Improve the reliability, scalability, observability, and operational maturity of the services underpinning these products.
- - Help shape the technical direction of a new and growing team as it scales from an early core group into a larger engineering organization.
- Experience turning ambiguous, fast-moving technical problems into pragmatic, durable systems. -