Software Engineer, API Multicloud

Responsibilities

• Build backend and infrastructure systems that extend OpenAI’s API platform into cloud-native environments like AWS
• Design and ship cloud-contained products that allow customers to use OpenAI capabilities within cloud environments
• Help stand up cloud-hosted Codex experiences powered by the OpenAI Responses API
• Build infrastructure and runtime abstractions for a stateful, cloud-optimized agentic platform
• Partner with external cloud partners and internal teams across Codex, Research, and Safety Systems
• Improve reliability, scalability, observability, and operational maturity of services
• Shape the technical direction of a new and growing engineering team

Requirements

• 7+ years of professional engineering experience in tech and product-driven companies
• Proficiency in backend languages such as Python, Go, Rust, or TypeScript
• Strong understanding of distributed systems concepts
• Experience building developer tools or AI-powered tools
• Experience with cloud infrastructure primitives and production service ownership
• Ability to turn ambiguous, fast-moving technical problems into pragmatic systems
• Proven ability to thrive in fast-growing, product-driven environments

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience building cloud services
• Experience collaborating cross-functionally with platform, research, safety, or external partner teams
• Interest in AI infrastructure, agentic systems, and developer platforms

About the Company

OpenAI is an AI research and deployment company dedicated to ensuring that general-purpose artificial intelligence benefits all of humanity.