OpenAI
Backend Software Engineer, Applied Foundations
About this role
Join OpenAI's Applied Foundations team to design and build scalable backend systems powering ChatGPT and other core products. You'll develop reliable, secure infrastructure handling identity, safety, payments, and commerce at global scale across distributed services.
What you'll do
- Architect and build scalable backend systems and APIs
- Ensure performance, reliability, and safety across distributed services
- Implement data storage, retrieval, compute, and integration solutions
- Participate in architectural planning and technical design reviews
- Collaborate on safety solutions to mitigate adversarial attacks
What they're looking for
- Distributed systems design
- Backend languages (Go, Python, Rust, C++)
- APIs and microservices
- Production backend services and data pipelines
- Large-scale systems handling
- Problem-solving and self-direction
- Cross-functional collaboration
- Security and safety mindset
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OpenAI
OpenAI builds AI infrastructure and products, including large-scale data center campuses for AI computing and generative AI applications for enterprise customers. The company is hiring civil engineers, project engineers, electrical design engineers, data center R&D engineers, and AI deployment engineers to expand its infrastructure capabilities and help customers deploy AI solutions.
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