Full Stack Software Engineer (API Experience)

TL;DR

Full Stack Software Engineer (API Experience): Build and scale OpenAI API developer-facing products across frontend surfaces, backend systems, SDKs, documentation, and API workflows with an accent on reliability, developer empathy, and production readiness. Focus on end-to-end ownership from UX collaboration and API workflow tooling to launch, measurement, and iteration for millions of developers.

Company

OpenAI builds and safely deploys advanced AI systems through products and developer platforms.

What you will do

• Build and scale developer-facing products such as the OpenAI API Playground, documentation experiences, onboarding flows, examples, and API workflow tools.
• Own full stack projects end to end, from product definition and UX collaboration through backend implementation, launch, measurement, and iteration.
• Improve systems that generate, maintain, and publish SDKs, API references, docs, guides, and developer examples.
• Partner with API, research, design, and infrastructure teams to bring new model capabilities and API primitives to developers in a clear, usable way.
• Use developer feedback, product analytics, and customer insight to identify friction and improve the API experience.
• Help set technical and product direction for a new NYC-based team with broad ownership over OpenAI’s developer experience.

Requirements

• 5+ years of professional engineering experience in product-driven engineering teams (excluding internships).
• Strong experience with TypeScript and React, and modern web application development.
• Proficiency in one or more backend languages such as Python, Go, Rust, TypeScript, or similar.
• Experience designing, building, and operating production APIs, services, databases, or developer tooling.
• Strong product judgment and a track record of turning ambiguous developer problems into simple, high-quality product experiences.
• Comfort working across product, design, engineering, research, and external developer feedback loops.

Culture & Benefits

• Cross-functional collaboration across product, design, research, API engineering, and developer-facing teams.
• Focus on craft, developer empathy, reliability, accessibility, and maintainability in production systems.
• Compensation: $293K–$385K plus offers equity.

Hiring process

• Interviews to evaluate engineering experience, product thinking, and ability to deliver end-to-end developer experiences.