Software Engineer, Shop/Feed Ads

The role

You will lead the design and development of systems that turn advertiser feeds into relevant ads. You will build across the full ads lifecycle including ingestion, retrieval, ranking, and serving at scale.

What you will do

• Design and build pipelines that ingest, validate, normalize, and refresh merchant product feeds.
• Develop scalable catalog storage and indexing systems.
• Build search and retrieval systems to identify relevant products.
• Partner with Ads ML to connect product retrieval with ranking models.
• Engineer low-latency, high-throughput ads delivery systems.
• Design real-time event pipelines and distributed storage.
• Build observability and quality controls for feed errors and serving issues.
• Define technical direction and drive complex projects from prototype to production.
• Operate systems with high engineering rigor through testing, monitoring, and reviews.

Required qualifications

• Experience building and operating large-scale distributed systems.
• Direct ownership of product ads retrieval, ranking infrastructure, or delivery.
• Understanding of merchant feeds and shopping systems.
• Experience building low-latency, high-throughput services and data pipelines.

Nice to have

• Experience with systems at platforms such as Google Shopping, YouTube, Amazon, or a comparable environment.
• Senior Staff-level or greater scope with deep ownership of large-scale catalogs, search and indexing, ads serving, or related distributed systems.

Benefits

• Relocation assistance to new employees

About the company

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