Backend Software Engineer, Applied Foundations

The role

Backend Software Engineers will design and implement safe services and infrastructure that power core products. This includes architecting scalable backend systems, APIs, and distributed services.

What you will do

• Architect, build, and improve scalable backend systems and APIs.
• Drive performance, reliability, and safety across distributed services.
• Implement data storage, retrieval, compute, and integration solutions.
• Participate in long-term architectural planning and technical design reviews.
• Collaborate with cross-functional teams to design solutions that protect against and mitigate adversarial attacks.

Required qualifications

• Strong experience with distributed systems, APIs, and backend languages (e.g., Go, Python, Rust, C++).
• Experience setting up and maintaining production backend services and data pipelines.

Nice to have

• Humble attitude
• Eagerness to help colleagues
• Desire to do whatever it takes to make the team succeed
• Enjoy building resilient services that handle large scale and complexity
• Self-directed
• Willing to pick up whatever knowledge is missing to get the job done

About the company

OpenAI is an AI research and deployment company dedicated to ensuring that general-purpose artificial intelligence benefits all of humanity. They push the boundaries of AI capabilities and seek to safely deploy them through products.