Full Stack Software Engineer, API Experience

About this role

Join OpenAI's API Experience team to build the developer-facing products and infrastructure that help millions of developers work with OpenAI models. You'll own full-stack projects spanning the Playground, documentation, SDKs, onboarding flows, and API tools while partnering across product, design, and engineering teams.

What you'll do

• Develop and scale developer-facing products including the API Playground, documentation experiences, and onboarding flows
• Own full stack projects from product definition through backend implementation, launch, and iteration
• Improve systems for generating, maintaining, and publishing SDKs, API references, documentation, and examples
• Partner with API, research, and infrastructure teams to bring new model capabilities to developers clearly
• Use developer feedback and analytics to identify friction points and enhance the API experience
• Help establish technical and product direction for the NYC-based team

What they're looking for

• TypeScript and React
• Backend languages (Python, Go, Rust, or equivalent)
• Production API and service design
• Product sense and UX collaboration
• Documentation systems and developer tooling
• Performance, accessibility, and reliability in production
• Cross-functional communication
• Ability to work in fast-moving, ambiguous environments