OpenAI
Staff & Software Engineer, Payments & Billing, Consumer Monetization
$266K–$445K
San Francisco · Hybrid · Staff · Full-time · Posted Sep 24, 2026
About the job
Build and evolve the shared payment, billing, and subscription systems and customer experiences that support OpenAI products and monetization.
What you'll do
- Architect and build shared services and APIs for billing, subscriptions, and payments.
- Design lifecycle orchestration, state synchronization, and recovery across internal systems and external providers.
- Lead initiatives from design through rollout and operations, while providing hands-on technical leadership and mentorship.
What they ask for
- Demonstrated technical ownership at Staff level or beyond, including shaping architecture and delivering substantial initiatives across teams.
- Deep experience designing, building, and operating backend or distributed systems in production.
- Strong understanding of data modeling, state transitions, idempotency, consistency, concurrency, and failure recovery.
- Experience building reliable, correctness-critical systems involving external providers and complex dependencies.
Nice to have
- Experience in payments, billing, subscriptions, memberships, e-commerce, offers, promotions, or other transactional platforms.
- Exceptional distributed systems experience and motivation to develop expertise in these domains.
Pay
$266K – $445K (base salary)
Tools
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