Backend Engineer, Consumer Devices

Backend Engineer at OpenAI's Consumer Devices team. Responsibilities include architecting and building high-performance backend systems, designing APIs and data models, collaborating with cross-functional teams, and balancing development velocity with long-term scalability. Based in San Francisco with a hybrid work model requiring four days in office per week.

7+ years of professional software engineering experience with focus on backend systems. Proven track record of building and scaling systems. Proficient in Python and Go. Strong system design, performance optimization, and security best practices. Nice-to-have: distributed systems, cloud architectures, instrumentation, analytics, performance tuning, hardware-cloud integrations, applied AI services.