Staff Backend Engineer, Financial Engineering

The role

You will design and build systems for purchasing, payments, subscriptions, and billing across OpenAI products. The role involves building product catalogs, metering systems, and data pipelines to support global markets.

What you will do

• Design and build systems for purchasing, payments, subscriptions, and billing
• Build product catalogs, SKUs, and bundles
• Develop workspace and entitlement systems
• Ensure charges and product access remain correct during service failures or retries
• Build metering systems, data pipelines, and APIs for usage and billing
• Create reusable building blocks for new offerings and pricing
• Simplify complex financial workflows for customers and internal teams
• Scale and evolve live systems while protecting accuracy, performance, and security
• Own problems from early design through launch and operation

Required qualifications

• Strong backend experience

Nice to have

• Experience with payments, subscriptions, pricing, billing, or other systems that manage customer purchases and revenue
• Experience with product catalogs, packaging and bundles, workspace management, entitlements, or usage metering
• Experience building financial or transaction systems at scale, checking that records match across systems, or supporting compliance and audits

About the company

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