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Software Engineer, Financial Engineering

OpenAI· Applied AI
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Hybrid (San Francisco)$266k - $445k + equityFull-timePosted 11mo ago

About the role

Experienced software engineer to architect and build next-generation financial systems for pricing, checkout, payments, subscriptions, usage-based billing, and related order-to-cash workflows within OpenAI’s Applied AI organization.

Responsibilities

  • Have 5+ years of professional software engineering experience building and operating production backend, platform, or distributed systems.
  • Have strong fundamentals in API design, data modeling, storage systems, transactional workflows, and event-driven architecture.
  • Have experience building systems where correctness, reliability, observability, security, or data integrity are especially important.
  • Are comfortable owning ambiguous, business-critical problems from initial definition through launch and long-term operation.
  • Bring a product-oriented mindset and care about creating simple, trustworthy experiences for both external customers and internal users.
  • Communicate clearly with technical and non-technical partners and enjoy working closely with Product, Finance, Accounting, Operations, Data, and Go-to-Market teams.
  • Make thoughtful tradeoffs between near-term delivery and long-term system quality.
  • Move quickly and independently in an environment where requirements evolve, priorities compete, and the right solution is not always obvious.
  • Nice to Have: Experience with payments, subscriptions, billing, pricing, credits, entitlements, invoicing, revenue systems, or other monetization infrastructure.
  • Nice to Have: Experience with high-scale financial or transactional systems, reconciliation workflows, compliance requirements, or audit controls.
  • Nice to Have: Experience building shared platforms, APIs, frameworks, or developer tools used by multiple product teams.

Qualifications

  • 5+ years of professional software engineering experience building and operating production backend, platform, or distributed systems.
  • strong fundamentals in API design, data modeling, storage systems, transactional workflows, and event-driven architecture.
  • experience with systems where correctness, reliability, observability, security, or data integrity are important.
  • product-oriented mindset and ability to work with cross-functional teams.

Skills

Required:API designData modelingStorage systemsTransactional workflowsEvent-driven architectureSecurity and data integrity

Benefits

  • Medical, dental, and vision insurance for you and your family, with employer contributions to Health Savings Accounts
  • Pre-tax accounts for Health FSA, Dependent Care FSA, and commuter expenses
  • 401(k) retirement plan with employer match
  • Paid parental leave (up to 24 weeks for birth parents and 20 weeks for non-birthing parents), plus paid medical and caregiver leave (up to 8 weeks)
  • Paid time off: flexible PTO and up to 15 days annually for non-exempt employees
  • 13+ paid company holidays, and additional paid office closures
  • Mental health and wellness support
  • Employer-paid basic life and disability coverage
  • Annual learning and development stipend
  • Daily meals in offices, meal delivery credits
  • Relocation support for eligible employees
  • Additional taxable fringe benefits (e.g., charitable donation matching, wellness stipends)
Last updated Sep 3, 2026. Interested? Apply on the company site.

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