# Backend Software Engineer, Applied Foundations

**Company**: OpenAI
**Location**: San Francisco
**Work arrangement**: onsite
**Experience**: mid
**Job type**: Full time
**Salary**: $185K – $385K
**Category**: Engineering
**Industry**: Technology
**Wikidata**: https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q124605186

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## Description

We're hiring Backend Software Engineers to design and implement safe services and infrastructure that power our core products.

As a Backend Software Engineer on the Applied Foundations team, you will:

Architect, build, and improve scalable backend systems and APIs. Drive performance, reliability, and safety across distributed services. Implement data storage, retrieval, compute, and integration solutions. Participate in long-term architectural planning and technical design reviews. Collaborate with cross-functional teams to design solutions that protect against and mitigate adversarial attacks without compromising user experience.

You might thrive here if you:

Have strong experience with distributed systems, APIs, and backend languages (e.g., Go, Python, Rust, C++). Have experience setting up and maintaining production backend services and data pipelines. Have a humble attitude, an eagerness to help your colleagues, and a desire to do whatever it takes to make the team succeed. Enjoy building resilient services that handle large scale and complexity. Are self-directed and enjoy figuring out the best way to solve a particular problem. Own problems end-to-end, and are willing to pick up whatever knowledge you're missing to get the job done.

This role is at-will and OpenAI reserves the right to modify base pay and other compensation components at any time based on individual performance, team or company results, or market conditions.

## Skills

### Required
- distributed systems
- APIs
- backend languages
- Go
- Python
- Rust
- C++
- data storage
- retrieval
- compute
- integration solutions

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