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OpenAI

Full Stack Software Engineer, API Experience

New York City (Remote)$293k–$385kfulltimemidAdded 1 month ago

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
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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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  • Tell us about a time you owned a full-stack project end-to-end—from product definition through launch and iteration. How did you measure success?
  • Describe your experience building or improving developer-facing products like SDKs, APIs, documentation, or developer tools. What made the experience effective?
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