Software Engineer, API Enterprise Controls
OpenAI
Software Engineer, API Enterprise Controls is a still-open role at OpenAI on Jobrow. Location: On-site · San Francisco · California · United States. Listed pay: $266k–$445k. Sourced from the company's public Ashby board. First seen 2 months ago; last confirmed 9 days ago. Apply on the employer ATS — Jobrow is not the employer.
- Pay
- $266k–$445k
- Workplace
- On-site
- Location
- San Francisco · California · United States
- First seen
- 2 months ago
- Last seen
- 9 days ago
- Board
- Ashby
About this role
About the Team API Enterprise Controls is part of the API Infrastructure organization and owns the platform capabilities that help developers, startups, and enterprises adopt the OpenAI API securely and confidently.
- Function: Infrastructure
- Seniority: mid
Location & pay
On-site · San Francisco · California · United States Listed pay on Jobrow: $266k–$445k.
Source
Jobrow reads the public Ashby board for OpenAI. First seen 2 months ago; last seen 9 days ago. We are not the employer — apply only on the company ATS.
Posting
About the Team API Enterprise Controls is part of the API Infrastructure organization and owns the platform capabilities that help developers, startups, and enterprises adopt the OpenAI API securely and confidently. We build the systems underneath our APIs and developer platform across authentication and identity, service accounts and key management, secure networking, compliance, auditability, observability, and operational controls. Our users are developers and teams running critical applications on OpenAI, and we partner closely with Product, go-to-market, security, and infrastructure teams to turn their most important needs into reliable, intuitive platform capabilities. About the Role We are looking for an exceptional backend software engineer to help define and ship the enterprise capabilities our API Platform needs to scale.; this is a product-engineering role grounded in deep backend systems. You will work across databases, streaming systems, request routing, authentication, and developer-facing APIs while bringing strong product judgment, developer empathy, and attention to the small details that make a platform easier to understand, trust, and operate. You will lead large cross-functional initiatives, work closely with Product and go-to-market teams, engage directly with sophisticated users, and carry ambiguous needs from discovery through design, launch, and iteration. In this role, you will: - Own backend product capabilities end to end across authentication and identity, service accounts and key controls, secure networking, compliance, observability, and operational workflows. - Partner with Product, go-to-market, security, infrastructure teams, and sophisticated customers to identify needs, shape the roadmap, and lead large cross-functional projects from design through launch. - Design developer-facing APIs, system behavior, configuration, error handling, safe defaults, auditing, and notifications with exceptional care for the details that define a great developer experience. - Build, operate, and debug highly reliable backend systems spanning databases, streaming infrastructure, request routing, and distributed services, with strong operational ownership. Your background might look something like: - 9+ years of professional engineering experience, excluding internships, in relevant backend, platform, or product-driven engineering roles. - Exceptional backend engineering depth paired with strong product judgment and a track r
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