OpenAI
Backend Engineer, Consumer Devices
$293K–$325K
San Francisco · Full-time · Posted Jan 20, 2026
- Experience
- 7+ years of professional software engineering experience, with a focus on backend systems.
About the job
Designs and builds backend services, APIs, and infrastructure for consumer devices, with end-to-end considerations from hardware to cloud.
What you'll do
- Architect, build, and maintain high-performance, secure backend systems.
- Design APIs, data models, and infrastructure for evolving product needs.
- Collaborate across teams on end-to-end solutions while balancing development speed and long-term scalability.
What they ask for
- 7+ years of professional software engineering experience focused on backend systems.
- Track record of building and scaling systems from early stage to large scale.
- Proficiency with Python and Go.
- Strong grasp of system design, performance optimization, and security best practices.
Nice to have
- Experience with distributed systems and cloud architectures; instrumentation, analytics, or performance tuning.
- Familiarity with hardware-cloud integrations or applied AI services.
Pay
$293K – $325K USD base salary
Tools
Python, Go
AI focus
Familiarity with applied AI services is a nice-to-have; no specific AI development duties are stated.
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