Staff Backend Engineer, Financial Engineering at OpenAI | CA, US | Rezi

Staff Backend Engineer, Financial Engineering at OpenAI

Staff Backend Engineer, Financial Engineering

OpenAI · CA, US

4 days ago

Staff Backend Engineer, Financial Engineering

OpenAI · CA, US

4 days ago
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About the Role

Financial Engineering (FinEng) builds the financial systems behind OpenAI’s products, including ChatGPT, Codex, and the API platform. These systems handle purchasing, payments, subscriptions, billing, product catalogs, and usage metering, supporting individual users to large enterprises. Your work will directly impact product launches, customer confidence, and the evolution of OpenAI's offerings.

Responsibilities

  • Design and build systems for purchasing, payments, subscriptions, and billing across OpenAI products and global markets.
  • Build product catalogs, SKUs, and bundles to enable new product offerings and packaging.
  • Develop workspace and entitlement systems connecting purchases to product access.
  • Ensure correctness of charges and product access during retries, late updates, or service failures.
  • Build metering systems, data pipelines, and APIs for usage-to-billing conversion, spending information, and traceable records.
  • Create reusable components for product teams to launch new offerings, pricing, and payment options.
  • Simplify complex financial workflows for customers and internal teams, using feedback and experiments.
  • Scale and evolve live systems while ensuring customer access, financial accuracy, performance, and security.
  • Own problems from design through launch and operation, collaborating with product, design, finance, and engineering teams.

Requirements

  • Staff+ engineers with strong backend experience.
  • Experience with payments, subscriptions, pricing, billing, or other systems that manage customer purchases and revenue.
  • Experience with product catalogs, packaging and bundles, workspace management, entitlements, or usage metering.
  • Experience building financial or transaction systems at scale, checking that records match across systems, or supporting compliance and audits.

Experience Level

  • Staff+

About the Company

  • OpenAI is an AI research and deployment company focused on ensuring general-purpose AI benefits all of humanity.
  • We push AI capabilities and safely deploy them through our products.
  • AI development prioritizes safety and human needs, valuing diverse perspectives.
  • We believe AI can help solve global challenges and aim for its benefits to be widely shared.

Equal Opportunity

  • We are an equal opportunity employer, and we do not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, color, national origin, sex, sexual orientation, age, veteran status, disability, genetic information, or other applicable legally protected characteristic.
  • Background checks will be administered in accordance with applicable law.
  • Qualified applicants with arrest or conviction records will be considered for employment consistent with applicable laws, including fair chance ordinances.
  • We are committed to providing reasonable accommodations to applicants with disabilities.