Staff Backend Engineer (Financial Engineering)

Location: Hybrid in San Francisco, United States

Salary: $266K–$445K annually plus equity

Company

OpenAI is an AI research and deployment company building and safely deploying general-purpose AI products, including ChatGPT, Codex, and the OpenAI API platform.

What you will do

• Design and build purchasing, payment, subscription, and billing systems across OpenAI products and global markets.
• Build product catalogs, SKUs, bundles, workspace management, and entitlement systems connecting purchases to product access.
• Develop metering systems, data pipelines, and APIs that produce accurate bills, spending information, and traceable financial records.
• Ensure correctness when requests are retried, updates arrive late, or dependent services fail.
• Create reusable foundations for new products, pricing, and payment options while simplifying customer and internal financial workflows.
• Own technical problems from design through production, scaling live systems while protecting access, accuracy, performance, and security.

Requirements

• Strong backend engineering experience at Staff+ level.
• Ability to own problems from early design through launch and ongoing operation.
• Experience making and testing technical decisions with product, design, finance, and engineering teams.
• Ability to build and evolve high-volume services and data systems while maintaining financial accuracy, performance, and security.

Nice to have

• Experience with payments, subscriptions, pricing, billing, or systems managing customer purchases and revenue.
• Experience with product catalogs, packaging, bundles, workspace management, entitlements, or usage metering.
• Experience building financial or transaction systems at scale, reconciling records across systems, or supporting compliance and audits.

Culture & Benefits

• Full-time employment in a hybrid workplace.
• Work on systems supporting customers, developers, and businesses worldwide.
• Equal opportunity employer committed to diverse perspectives and reasonable accommodations for applicants with disabilities.
• Background checks are administered according to applicable law, including fair-chance requirements for US-based candidates.