Backend Software Engineer, Applied Foundations at OpenAI
- Company: OpenAI
- Location: Remote / San Francisco
- Employment type: Full-time
- Salary: $266K – $445K • Offers Equity
- Posted: 2026-05-07
- Technologies: OpenAI
About the role
About the Team OpenAI’s Applications Engineering organization builds and operates the products (such as ChatGPT & Codex) that bring our cutting-edge research to millions of users and developers worldwide. The Applied Foundations team owns the core product and platform layers that make those experiences possible — from identity & access, to safety to payments & commerce across all of our apps. Our teams span product engineering, infrastructure, and safety, working together to deliver technology that is reliable, secure, and trusted at global scale. About the Role We’re hiring Backend Software Engineers to design and implement safe services and infrastructure that power our core products. What You’ll Do - Architect, build, and improve scalable backend systems and APIs. - Drive performance, reliability, and safety across distributed services.…
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