Staff Backend Engineer, Financial Engineering
Core
Design and build scalable backend systems for purchasing, payments, subscriptions, billing, product catalogs, entitlements, and usage metering for OpenAI's global API platform.
Role type
Staff Backend Engineer (Financial Engineering)
Builds
Financial systems, product catalogs, entitlement systems, and data pipelines for OpenAI products
Domain
AI / SaaS / Financial Systems
Required skills
Backend system design, payments/billing architecture, data pipeline engineering, API development, distributed systems, financial accuracy, system scaling
Preferred skills
Payments/billing experience, product catalog management, usage metering, financial compliance, transactional system scaling
Technologies
None explicitly stated
Responsibilities
Design systems for purchasing and billing, build product catalogs and bundles, develop workspace and entitlement systems, ensure data consistency across retries and failures, build metering and data pipelines, create reusable building blocks, scale live systems, own problems from design to operation
Seniority
Staff, hands-on IC with architectural ownership