OpenAI
Full Stack Staff & Software Engineer, Consumer Monetization
$266K–$445K
San Francisco · Hybrid · Staff · Full-time · Posted Sep 24, 2026
About the job
Lead the architecture and development of end-to-end purchasing experiences and reusable monetization capabilities across OpenAI products.
What you'll do
- Build purchasing flows across frontend experiences, product APIs, and backend integrations; improve checkout conversion, performance, and reliability.
- Develop reusable checkout and monetization capabilities for products, pricing models, offers, and distribution channels.
- Lead initiatives from exploration through launch and operation, partnering across functions and providing hands-on technical leadership and mentorship.
What they ask for
- Demonstrated Staff-level-or-beyond technical ownership, architecture leadership, and delivery of substantial cross-team initiatives.
- Strong experience building sophisticated web applications and backend APIs.
- Repeated experience taking customer-facing products from ambiguous ideas through production and ongoing iteration.
- Experience with experimentation and A/B testing to guide product decisions and measure impact.
Nice to have
- Experience in e-commerce, growth, checkout, subscriptions, offers, or monetization.
- Direct payments experience.
Pay
$266K – $445K (base salary)
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