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OpenAI Senior Backend Engineer Jobs

68 results in US

Software Engineer, Full Stack - Codex Cloud Apps
San Francisco, CA
$230K - $325K (Employer provided)
24h
Software Engineer, Habitat (Online Data)
Seattle, WA
$230K - $385K (Employer provided)
30d+
Software Engineer, Internal Applications - Enterprise
San Francisco, CA
$293K - $342K (Employer provided)
30d+

Software Engineer, Full Stack - Cybersecurity Products
San Francisco, CA
$230K - $325K (Employer provided)
5d
Software Engineer, Backend (Cooperative AI)
San Francisco, CA
$230K - $385K (Employer provided)
30d+
Backend Software Engineer (Evals)
San Francisco, CA
$230K - $385K (Employer provided)
30d+
Software Engineer, Cloud Agents
San Francisco, CA
$293K - $385K (Employer provided)
4d
Backend Software Engineer, Applied Foundations
San Francisco, CA
$185K - $385K (Employer provided)
30d+
Software Engineer, Codex App
San Francisco, CA
$230K - $385K (Employer provided)
30d+
Backend Software Engineer, ChatGPT ImageGen
San Francisco, CA
$185K - $305K (Employer provided)
24h
Full Stack Software Engineer, ChatGPT ImageGen
San Francisco, CA
$185K - $385K (Employer provided)
24h
Software Engineer, Full Stack (People Innovation)
Remote
$153K - $385K (Employer provided)
30d+
Principal Software Engineer, B2B Engineering
Remote
$385K - $490K (Employer provided)
30d+
Software Engineer - Privacy & Compliance
San Francisco, CA
$230K - $385K (Employer provided)
30d+
Software Engineer, Observability
San Francisco, CA
$255K - $405K (Employer provided)
30d+
Backend Software Engineer, GTM Innovation
San Francisco, CA
$230K - $385K (Employer provided)
30d+
Backend Software Engineer, Growth
San Francisco, CA
$185K - $385K (Employer provided)
30d+
Software Engineer, Infrastructure - Analytics Platform
San Francisco, CA
$230K - $385K (Employer provided)
30d+
Frontend Software Engineer, Codex App
San Francisco, CA
$230K - $385K (Employer provided)
30d+
Software Engineer, API SDK
Seattle, WA
$293K - $385K (Employer provided)
12d
Capacity Systems Software Engineer
San Francisco, CA
$293K - $455K (Employer provided)
19d
Software Engineer, Codex Enterprise
San Francisco, CA
$230K - $385K (Employer provided)
24h
Software Engineer, Full Stack, Revenue Platform
San Francisco, CA
$230K - $385K (Employer provided)
30d+
Software Engineer, Data Acquisition
San Francisco, CA
$293K - $385K (Employer provided)
30d+
Software Engineer, Localization
San Francisco, CA
$185K - $300K (Employer provided)
30d+
Full-Stack Software Engineer, Compute Foundations
San Francisco, CA
$230K - $347K (Employer provided)
15d
Senior Staff Software Engineer, Identity Infrastructure Engineering
San Francisco, CA
$348K - $385K (Employer provided)
7d
Frontend Engineer, ChatGPT Engineering
San Francisco, CA
$185K - $385K (Employer provided)
30d+
Full-Stack SWE, Data Acquisition (Foundations)
San Francisco, CA
$293K - $385K (Employer provided)
30d+
Full Stack Engineer, Health AI
San Francisco, CA
$293K - $325K (Employer provided)
30d+
Backend Engineer, Consumer Devices
San Francisco, CA
$293K - $325K (Employer provided)
30d+
Software Engineer, Monetization Delivery
San Francisco, CA
$230K - $385K (Employer provided)
30d+
Software Engineer, Ad Formats
San Francisco, CA
$230K - $385K (Employer provided)
15d
Software Engineer, Compute - Storage
San Francisco, CA
$230K - $385K (Employer provided)
30d+
Full-Stack Software Engineer, Applied Foundations
San Francisco, CA
$185K - $385K (Employer provided)
30d+
Full Stack Software Engineer, Growth
San Francisco, CA
$153K - $385K (Employer provided)
30d+
Data Scientist, Infrastructure
San Francisco, CA
$230K - $385K (Employer provided)
30d+
Software Engineer, Scaled Abuse
San Francisco, CA
$230K - $385K (Employer provided)
30d+
Full Stack Software Engineer, OpenAI Edu
San Francisco, CA
$230K - $385K (Employer provided)
30d+
AI Systems Engineer, Codex Agents
San Francisco, CA
$230K - $385K (Employer provided)
26d

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