Software Engineer, API Safety
Recruiter Fit Breakdown & Candid Summary
OpenAI is seeking a product-minded software engineer to join the API Safety team in San Francisco.
This role requires 7+ years of professional backend, infrastructure, or platform engineering experience, focusing on high-volume production services and developer-facing APIs.
The ideal candidate balances technical rigor in distributed systems with strong product judgment, empathy for developers, and an interest in AI safety.
Applicants without a strong background in operating production backend systems or handling distributed architecture challenges will not be a good fit.
Role Responsibilities
- 1Design and build dashboards and APIs for safety controls and customer-facing observability.
- 2Develop scalable systems that extend trusted safety capabilities to new use cases, customers, and deployment environments.
- 3Partner with Safety Research and Integrity to build safeguards that mitigate emerging risks.
- 4Be responsible for the availability, latency, and scalability of safeguards across high-volume API traffic.
- 5Own projects from technical design and implementation through launch and ongoing iteration while raising engineering standards.
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