Software Engineer, API Safety

The role

You will design and build dashboards, APIs, and scalable systems for safety controls and customer-facing observability. You will partner with Safety Research and Integrity to build safeguards that mitigate emerging risks.

What you will do

• Design and build dashboards and APIs for safety controls and customer-facing observability.
• Develop scalable systems that extend trusted safety capabilities to new use cases, customers, and deployment environments.
• Partner with Safety Research and Integrity to build safeguards that mitigate emerging risks.
• Be responsible for the availability, latency, and scalability of safeguards across high-volume API traffic.
• Own projects from technical design and implementation through launch and ongoing iteration.
• Raise the team's engineering standards.

Required qualifications

• 7+ years of professional experience, excluding internships, in backend, infrastructure, platform, or product engineering roles.
• A track record of designing, building, and operating production backend services, developer-facing APIs, or distributed systems.
• Strong software engineering and systems fundamentals.
• Experience leading technically complex projects from ambiguous ideas to production.
• Proficiency in one or more general-purpose backend languages, such as Python, Go, Rust, or TypeScript.
• Experience building reliable, scalable systems and reasoning about distributed architecture, concurrency, latency, observability, and operational tradeoffs.
• Product judgment and developer empathy.
• Clear communication and a collaborative approach to working with researchers, product managers, designers, infrastructure engineers, and customers.

Nice to have

• Experience with observability, abuse prevention, trust and safety, identity, security, privacy, compliance, or risk systems

About the company

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