Backend Software Engineer, ChatGPT Engineering

Location

San Francisco (also open to hiring in New York and Seattle)

Employment Type

Full time

Department

Applied AI

Compensation

$185K – $385K annual base pay (varies by factors including location, knowledge, skills, experience)
Total compensation includes generous equity, performance-related bonuses (for eligible employees), and benefits:
Medical, dental, and vision insurance with employer contributions to Health Savings Accounts
Pre-tax accounts for Health FSA, Dependent Care FSA, commuter expenses (parking and transit)
401(k) retirement plan with employer match
Paid parental leave (up to 24 weeks birth parents, 20 weeks non-birthing parents), paid medical and caregiver leave (up to 8 weeks)
Paid time off: flexible PTO for exempt employees; up to 15 days annually for non-exempt employees
13+ paid company holidays plus multiple coordinated office closures; paid sick or safe time as required by law
Mental health and wellness support
Employer-paid basic life and disability coverage
Annual learning and development stipend
Daily meals in offices and meal delivery credits as eligible
Relocation support for eligible employees
Additional taxable fringe benefits such as charitable donation matching and wellness stipends

About the Team

Core backend engineering is central to delivering reliable, scalable, performant AI-driven products. Backend teams cover Search Infrastructure, Platform Engineering, Personalization, Ecosystems, Growth, building services, data systems, APIs powering ChatGPT’s global footprint.

About the Role

Hiring Backend Software Engineers to design and implement services and infrastructure powering ChatGPT.

What You’ll Do

Architect, build, improve scalable backend systems and APIs.
Drive performance, reliability, security across distributed services.
Collaborate closely with product, data science, frontend teams.
Implement data storage, retrieval, compute, integration solutions.
Participate in long-term architectural planning and technical design reviews.

You Might Thrive Here If You:

Have strong experience with distributed systems, APIs.
Skilled in backend languages such as Go, Python, Rust, C++.
Enjoy building resilient services handling large scale/complexity.
Passionate about system design, reliability, operational excellence.

About OpenAI

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