Backend Software Engineer

Responsibilities

• 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

Requirements

• Strong experience with distributed systems and APIs
• Proficiency in backend languages such as Go, Python, Rust, or C++
• Experience setting up and maintaining production backend services and data pipelines
• Ability to own problems end-to-end and work in a self-directed manner

About the Company

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.