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Software Engineer, Monetization Product & Platform

Backend Developer • On-site • Full-time • 📍 San Francisco

The Monetization team is a cross-functional group building OpenAI's user-first, privacy-preserving monetization products — including next-generation ads experiences — in a greenfield, foundational engineering role.

Responsibilities

  • Design, build, and scale the core infrastructure behind OpenAI's monetization and ads products
  • Develop advertiser-facing APIs and tools for creating, managing, and measuring ads
  • Build integrations with external partners and help create enterprise-grade monetization products
  • Architect distributed systems and services that operate at massive scale with strong reliability, usability, privacy, and performance guarantees
  • Work closely with Product, Research, and Design to translate product requirements into high-quality technical solutions
  • Drive 0→1 product development through rapid prototyping, experimentation, and iterative deployment
  • Contribute to technical strategy and propose new directions for the monetization and ads roadmap
  • Maintain high engineering rigor through strong testing, documentation, and operational best practices
  • Uphold the highest levels of safety, privacy, fairness, and policy compliance across all monetization systems

Requirements

  • 7+ years of experience building high-scale consumer, enterprise, or ads-related systems
  • Track record of architecting and delivering complex distributed systems with high reliability and performance requirements
  • Comfort navigating ambiguous product spaces and contributing to technical roadmaps and long-term direction
  • Strong product intuition and enjoyment of deep collaboration with Product, Design, and Research
  • Thrives in 0→1 environments where systems, architecture, and user experiences must be defined from scratch

Nice to have

  • Experience in ads systems, marketplaces, or other monetization-heavy domains

Soft skills

Clear, holistic communicationDecision-making rooted in user needs and long-term sustainabilityMotivated by building privacy-preserving, safe, user-first monetization systems

What we offer

  • Relocation assistance for new employees

About the company

OpenAI is an AI research and deployment company dedicated to ensuring that general-purpose artificial intelligence benefits all of humanity. The company pushes the boundaries of AI capabilities and seeks to safely deploy them to the world through its products.

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