Software Engineer, Financial Engineering

OpenAI OpenAI · AI Frontier · San Francisco, CA · Applied AI

Software Engineer role focused on architecting and building next-generation billing and monetization systems for OpenAI's ChatGPT and API users. The role involves developing across the stack to create comprehensive billing integrations, designing a scalable and enterprise-ready platform for subscription and usage-based offerings, and constructing tools for internal teams. Collaboration with Product, Data, Finance, and Go-To-Market teams is key. Requires 5+ years of software engineering experience, with bonus for payments/billing/monetization experience. Ability to work in a fast-paced, sometimes loosely defined environment is important.

What you'd actually do

  1. Architect and build the next generation of billing and monetization systems at OpenAI.
  2. Develop across the stack to create comprehensive billing integrations for our range of ChatGPT and API users.
  3. Design a versatile billing platform suitable for both subscription and usage-based offerings, ensuring scalability and enterprise readiness/flexibility.
  4. Construct and integrate tools that empower internal teams to seamlessly incorporate billing data into their workflows.
  5. Collaborate closely with a wide array of stakeholders, including the Product, Data, Finance, and Go-To-Market teams, as well as fellow engineers.

Skills

Required

  • software engineering
  • production systems development
  • system design
  • collaboration
  • stakeholder management

Nice to have

  • payments
  • billing
  • monetization
  • imparting knowledge

What the JD emphasized

  • 5 years of professional software engineering experience
  • developing (and redeveloping) production systems
  • handle scaling challenges
  • move fast in an environment where things are sometimes loosely defined and may have competing priorities or deadlines