Senior Staff Backend Software Engineer, ChatGPT Enterprise

We're hiring backend engineers to build the product experiences that turn ChatGPT into an indispensable tool for teams,while ensuring the trust, controls, and performance enterprises require. This role is especially focused on the enterprise controls track: designing collaboration experiences, onboarding and engagement loops, and product affordances that help employees discover and adopt advanced capabilities (including agents and custom GPT-style workflows).

In this role, you will:

• Build backend systems that power enterprise controls, including permissions, policy enforcement, auditability, and compliance workflows.

• Design residency- and region-aware architectures that enable enterprise workloads to meet country- and customer-specific requirements.

• Partner with product, security, legal/compliance, and adjacent engineering teams to turn enterprise requirements into scalable technical systems.

• Improve the reliability, observability, and operational maturity of the services that underpin ChatGPT Enterprise.

Writable about:

• 9+ years of professional engineering experience (excluding internships) in relevant roles at tech and product-driven companies

• Former founder, or early engineer at a startup who has built a product from scratch is a plus

• Proficiency in one or more backend languages (e.g., Python, Go, Rust, Typescript or similar) and distributed systems concepts

• Experience designing and operating distributed systems with a strong emphasis on reliability, performance, and security

• Experience building systems involving access controls, identity, compliance, privacy, data governance, or other enterprise platform concerns

• Some experience with relational databases like Postgres/MySQL

• Care deeply about reliability, safety, and performance in production environments

• Interest in AI/ML (direct experience not required)

• Proven ability to thrive in fast-growing, product-driven companies by effectively navigating loosely defined tasks and managing competing priorities or deadlines.