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Software Engineer, Backend — Dots

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Software Engineer, Backend — Dots is a still-open role at OpenAI on Jobrow. Location: Hybrid · New York City · New York · United States. Listed pay: $347k–$385k. Sourced from the company's public Ashby board. First seen 12 days ago; last confirmed 9 days ago. Apply on the employer ATS — Jobrow is not the employer.

Pay
$347k–$385k
Workplace
Hybrid
Location
New York City · New York · United States
First seen
12 days ago
Last seen
9 days ago
Board
Ashby
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About this role

About the Role Dots is looking for a Backend Engineer to build the systems that power our product.

  • Function: Machine learning
  • Seniority: mid

Location & pay

Hybrid · New York City · New York · United States Listed pay on Jobrow: $347k–$385k.

Source

Jobrow reads the public Ashby board for OpenAI. First seen 12 days ago; last seen 9 days ago. We are not the employer — apply only on the company ATS.

Posting

About the Role Dots is looking for a Backend Engineer to build the systems that power our product. You’ll work closely with product, design, and engineering to turn ideas into reliable services and deliver features from design through production. In this role, you will: - Design, build, and maintain backend services and APIs. - Develop data models and improve database performance. - Build integrations with third-party services. - Improve system reliability, security, and observability. - Write tested, maintainable code and participate in code reviews. - Investigate production issues and address their root causes. - Help shape technical decisions as the product grows. You might thrive in this role if you have: - Experience building and operating backend applications in production. - Strong proficiency in a backend programming language. - Solid understanding of API design, relational databases, and data modeling. - Experience with cloud infrastructure, automated testing, and deployment workflows. - Ability to balance speed with quality and make practical technical decisions. - Clear communication and a collaborative approach to solving problems. Nice to have: - Experience with distributed systems, background jobs, and event-driven architectures. - Familiarity with caching, queues, and performance optimization. - Experience working on a small team or an early-stage product. About OpenAI OpenAI is an AI research and deployment company dedicated to ensuring that general-purpose artificial intelligence benefits all of humanity. We push the boundaries of the capabilities of AI systems and seek to safely deploy them to the world through our products. AI is an extremely powerful tool that must be created with safety and human needs at its core, and to achieve our mission, we must encompass and value the many different perspectives, voices, and experiences that form the full spectrum of humanity.  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. For additional information, please see OpenAI’s Affirmative Action and Equal Employment Opportunity Policy Statement https://cdn.openai.com/policies/eeo-policy-statement.pdf. Background checks for applicants will be administered in accordance with applicable law, and qualified app

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