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Backend Engineer, Consumer Devices

OpenAI· Consumer Devices
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San FranciscoFull-timePosted 8mo ago

About the role

Backend Engineer role focused on designing, building, and maintaining scalable, secure backend systems, APIs, and infrastructure to support evolving product needs for OpenAI’s consumer devices. Hybrid in San Francisco with relocation assistance.

Responsibilities

  • Architect, build, and maintain high-performance, secure backend systems.
  • Design APIs, data models, and infrastructure to support evolving product needs.
  • Balance near-term development velocity with long-term maintainability and scalability.
  • Collaborate with cross-functional teams to ensure cohesive, end-to-end solutions.

Qualifications

  • Have 7+ years of professional software engineering experience, with a focus on backend systems.
  • Proven track record of building and scaling systems from early stage to large scale.
  • Proficient with Python and Go, and familiar with a range of server-side technologies.
  • Strong grasp of system design, performance optimization, and security best practices.
  • Ability to reason about full-stack tradeoffs from hardware through cloud infrastructure.

Skills

Required:Backend systems design and architectureAPI designPythonGoSystem designFull-stack tradeoffs
Nice to have:Distributed systems (nice to have)Instrumentation and performance tuning (nice to have)Hardware-cloud integrations or applied AI services (nice to have)

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
  • Mental health and wellness support
  • Employer-paid basic life and disability coverage
  • Annual learning and development stipend
  • 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
Last updated Sep 3, 2026. Interested? Apply on the company site.

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