Software Engineer, Codex Enterprise

The role

You will build new products and major capabilities for Codex Enterprise. You will design backend systems and ecosystem capabilities to help organizations use Codex in software development workflows.

What you will do

• Shape new Codex Enterprise products and features.
• Own projects from exploration through architecture, implementation, launch, and production operations.
• Build ecosystem capabilities such as plugins, skills, hooks, and discovery experiences.
• Build services for enterprise administration, governance, and usage visibility.
• Design reliable, secure, observable backend systems for web, IDEs, CLI, and CI/CD.
• Partner with product managers and Forward Deployed Engineers to translate user needs into product improvements.
• Ramp quickly in unfamiliar domains and surface edge cases.
• Communicate trade-offs that shape technical decisions.

Required qualifications

• Deep backend engineering experience, including production services and distributed systems.
• Demonstrated ownership of a new product or major capability from an ambiguous starting point through launch.
• Exceptional coding, software design, and debugging fundamentals.
• Proficiency in a backend language.
• Ability to reason independently through difficult technical problems.
• Strong product judgment to identify user problems and make practical trade-offs.
• Evidence of learning unfamiliar systems or domains quickly.
• Excellent communication and collaboration skills.

Nice to have

• Experience building enterprise products, integrations, or identity and governance capabilities.
• Hands-on experience as a founder who brought a product to market.
• Sustained track record of growing technical responsibility at a larger company.

About the company

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