OpenAI
Software Engineer, Scaled Abuse
$266K–$445K
San Francisco · Full-time · Posted Jun 8, 2026
- Experience
- At least 5 years in software engineering focused on backend and data systems, and at least 2 years in fraud or abuse analysis, investigation, and/or operations.
About the job
Build and operate backend and data systems that detect, prevent, investigate, and remediate fraud and abuse across OpenAI products.
What you'll do
- Design and build fraud detection and remediation systems while balancing fraud loss, implementation cost, and customer experience.
- Partner with finance, security, product, research, and Trust & Safety operations to combat fraud and abuse.
- Use GPT-5 and future models to improve fraud and abuse prevention.
What they ask for
- At least 5 years of software engineering experience in backend and data systems.
- At least 2 years of experience in fraud or abuse analysis, investigation, and/or operations.
Nice to have
- Experience with Machine Learning techniques.
Pay
$266K – $445K USD base salary
Tools
Terraform, Kubernetes, Azure, Python, Postgres, Kafka, GPT-5
AI focus
Use GPT-5 and future models to combat fraud and abuse.
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