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Software Engineer, Codex Enterprise

OpenAI· Applied AI
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San Francisco$230k - $385kFull-timePosted 9mo ago

About the role

Backend-leaning software engineer role focused on building enterprise capabilities for Codex Enterprise, including architecture, deployment, and scalable backend systems for organizational use.

Responsibilities

  • Shape new Codex Enterprise products and features, applying product judgment to decide what to build and how it should work.
  • Own projects from exploration through architecture, implementation, launch, and production operations, using feedback to guide ongoing iteration.
  • Build ecosystem capabilities such as plugins, skills, hooks, and discovery experiences, alongside services for enterprise administration, governance, and usage visibility.
  • Design reliable, secure, observable backend systems that support Codex experiences across web, IDEs, CLI, and CI/CD.
  • Partner with product managers and Forward Deployed Engineers to translate deployment learnings and user needs into reusable product improvements.
  • Ramp quickly in unfamiliar domains, surface edge cases, and communicate the trade-offs that shape durable technical decisions.

Qualifications

  • Deep backend engineering experience, including production services and distributed systems. Backend-leaning full-stack engineers with substantial backend depth are also a strong fit.
  • Demonstrated ownership of a new product or major capability, taking it from an ambiguous starting point through launch.
  • Exceptional coding, software design, and debugging fundamentals, with proficiency in a backend language and the ability to reason independently through difficult technical problems.
  • Strong product judgment: you can identify the essential user problem, influence what gets built, and make practical trade-offs between speed, quality, and long-term maintainability.
  • Evidence of learning unfamiliar systems or domains quickly and adapting as product needs and technical constraints change.
  • Excellent communication and collaboration skills, including the ability to surface edge cases, explain technical decisions, and bring clarity to ambiguous problems.
  • Experience building enterprise products, integrations, or identity and governance capabilities is helpful, but not required.
  • Hands-on experience as a founder who brought a product to market, or a sustained track record of growing technical responsibility at a larger company, is a plus.

Skills

Required:Backend engineeringProduct judgmentSystem designCommunication

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 (parking and transit)
  • 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 for exempt employees and up to 15 days annually for non-exempt employees
  • 13+ paid company holidays, and multiple paid coordinated company office closures throughout the year for focus and recharge, plus paid sick or safe time (1 hour per 30 hours worked, or more, as required by applicable state or local law)
  • Mental health and wellness support
  • Employer-paid basic life and disability coverage
  • Annual learning and development stipend to fuel your professional growth
  • Daily meals in our offices, and meal delivery credits as eligible
  • Relocation support for eligible employees
  • Additional taxable fringe benefits, such as charitable donation matching and wellness stipends, may also be provided.
Last updated Oct 15, 2026. Interested? Apply on the company site.

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