Staff / Senior Staff Backend Engineer, B2B Flywheel

requirements Collaborate closely with data science, research, product, and infrastructure partners to identify user pain points, measure system behavior, and improve product quality Help develop the system needed to support model and product feedback loops, including signal capture, evaluation datasets, classifiers, and analytical tooling Operate with high ownership in a small team where priorities may shift quickly and the work spans multiple engineering domains Your background might look something like: 7+ years of professional backend engineering experience, ideally in high-scale, product-driven, or infrastructure-heavy environments Strong backend engineering fundamentals, including distributed systems, API services, data modeling, reliability, performance, and production operations Experience building or maintaining data pipelines, event systems, logging/telemetry infrastructure, or large-scale data processing systems Comfort working near data science, statistics, ML, or research engineering workflows; direct experience is strongly preferred, but not required Ability to operate effectively in ambiguous environments where problems are loosely defined and ownership boundaries are broad High agency, strong execution velocity, and a willingness to wear multiple hats across backend engineering, data infrastructure, and applied research-adjacent work Experience in fast-paced startups, early teams, or similarly high-ownership environments is a plus Interest in AI systems, enterprise products, and building the infrastructure that helps improve products and models through real-world usage signals Title note: At OpenAI, research and engineering hires share the internal title Member of Technical Staff . We use Staff / Senior Staff externally to signal the depth of experience, ownership, and technical leadership expected for this role.

Compensation Range: $293K - $385K USD About OpenAI OpenAI is an AI research and deployment company dedicated to ensuring that general-purpose artificial intelligence

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