Software Engineer, Monetization Delivery

The role

You will architect and implement distributed systems that power the core infrastructure for monetization and ads systems. You will work across backend, systems, and platform layers to build 0 to 1 infrastructure.

What you will do

• Design and build the foundational backend and infrastructure powering monetization and ads systems
• Architect large-scale distributed systems for reliability, privacy, security, and performance
• Develop APIs, infrastructure services, and internal platforms for ads creation, delivery, measurement, and optimization
• Work with Product, Research, and Design to translate requirements into technical solutions
• Drive 0 to 1 infra development through prototyping, experimentation, and iterative improvements
• Contribute to the long-term technical strategy and roadmap for the monetization infra stack
• Ensure engineering rigor through testing, documentation, observability, and operational best practices
• Build for safety, privacy, fairness, and policy alignment
• Collaborate across engineering orgs to ensure the infra layer is flexible, performant, and resilient

Required qualifications

• 10+ years of experience building and operating large-scale distributed systems
• Experience designing mission-critical systems with demanding reliability, performance, and correctness requirements

Nice to have

• Experience in ads systems
• Experience in marketplaces
• Experience in AI/ML infra
• Experience in other monetization-intensive domains

Benefits

• Relocation assistance

Before you apply

• Background checks for applicants will be administered

About the company

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