Software Engineer, Safety Engineering

San Francisco · Remotefull timeRemote

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$185k–$385k

H1B: yes

OpenAI Software Engineer, Safety Engineering at OpenAI builds and operates backend and distributed systems for financial engineering powering product monetization. Focuses on correctness, reliability, security, and data integrity in systems for pricing, billing, subscriptions, and payments.

Responsibilities

Have 5+ years of professional software engineering experience building and operating production backend, platform, or distributed systems.
Have strong fundamentals in API design, data modeling, storage systems, transactional workflows, and event-driven architecture.
Have experience building systems where correctness, reliability, observability, security, or data integrity are especially important.
Are comfortable owning ambiguous, business-critical problems from initial definition through launch and long-term operation.
Bring a product-oriented mindset and care about creating simple, trustworthy experiences for both external customers and internal users.
Communicate clearly with technical and non-technical partners and enjoy working closely with Product, Finance, Accounting, Operations, Data, and Go-to-Market teams.
Make thoughtful tradeoffs between near-term delivery and long-term system quality.
Move quickly and independently in an environment where requirements evolve, priorities compete, and the right solution is not always obvious.

Qualification

Strong fundamentals in API designExperience with paymentsExperience building shared platformsOpenAI US Applicant Privacy PolicyWe are an equal opportunity employerFor additional information

Required

5+ years professional software engineering experience
Strong fundamentals in API design, data modeling, storage systems, transactional workflows, and event-driven architecture
Experience building systems emphasizing correctness, reliability, observability, security, or data integrity

Preferred

Experience with payments, subscriptions, billing, pricing, credits, entitlements, invoicing, revenue systems, or other monetization infrastructure.
Experience with high-scale financial or transactional systems, reconciliation workflows, compliance requirements, or audit controls.
Experience building shared platforms, APIs, frameworks, or developer tools used by multiple product teams.
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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.
We are an equal opportunity employer, and we do not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, color, national origin, sex, sexual orientation, age, veteran status, disability, genetic information, or other applicable legally protected characteristic.
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