OpenAI
Software Engineer, Financial Engineering
$266K–$445K
San Francisco · Hybrid · Full-time · Posted Aug 28, 2026
- Experience
- 5+ years of professional software engineering experience.
About the job
Build and operate financial systems that support customer purchasing, payments, billing, subscriptions, and the order-to-cash lifecycle for OpenAI products.
What you'll do
- Architect and build financial engineering systems and platform foundations.
- Own business-critical systems and workflows from definition through launch and long-term operation.
- Partner with Product, Finance, Accounting, Operations, Data, and Go-to-Market teams to deliver reliable customer and internal experiences.
What they ask for
- 5+ years of professional software engineering experience building and operating production backend, platform, or distributed systems.
- Strong fundamentals in API design, data modeling, storage systems, transactional workflows, and event-driven architecture.
- Experience building systems where correctness, reliability, observability, security, or data integrity are especially important.
- Ability to own ambiguous, business-critical problems through launch and ongoing operation.
Nice to have
- Experience with payments, subscriptions, billing, pricing, credits, entitlements, invoicing, revenue systems, or other monetization infrastructure.
- Experience with high-scale financial or transactional systems, reconciliation workflows, compliance requirements, or audit controls.
Pay
$266K – $445K USD base salary
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