Backend Engineer, Consumer Devices

The role

You will design and build services, APIs, and infrastructure to support evolving product needs. You will architect, build, and maintain high-performance, secure backend systems.

What you will do

• Architect, build, and maintain high-performance, secure backend systems.
• Design APIs, data models, and infrastructure to support evolving product needs.
• Balance near-term development velocity with long-term maintainability and scalability.
• Collaborate with cross-functional teams to ensure cohesive, end-to-end solutions.

Required qualifications

• 7+ years of professional software engineering experience, with a focus on backend systems.
• Proven track record of building and scaling systems from early stage to large scale.
• Proficient with Python and Go.
• Familiar with a range of server-side technologies.
• Strong grasp of system design, performance optimization, and security best practices.
• Can reason about full-stack tradeoffs from hardware through cloud infrastructure.

Nice to have

• Experience with distributed systems and cloud architectures.
• Background in instrumentation, analytics, and performance tuning.
• Familiar with hardware-cloud integrations or applied AI services.

Benefits

• Relocation assistance to new employees

Before you apply

• Background checks for applicants will be administered in accordance with applicable law.

About the company

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