Full Stack Software Engineer, API Experience

OpenAI, Inc.

Job Overview

Location

New York City

Job Type

Full-time

Full Job Description

📋 Description

• Build and scale developer-facing products including the OpenAI API Playground, documentation experiences, onboarding flows, examples, and API workflow tools.
• Own full stack projects end to end, from product definition and UX collaboration through backend implementation, launch, measurement, and iteration.
• Improve the systems that generate, maintain, and publish SDKs, API references, docs, guides, and developer examples.
• Partner with API, research, design, and infrastructure teams to bring new model capabilities and API primitives to developers in a clear, usable way.
• Use developer feedback, product analytics, and direct customer insight to identify friction and improve the API experience.
• Help set technical and product direction for a new NYC-based team with broad ownership over OpenAI’s developer experience.
• Work across frontend product surfaces, backend systems, SDK and documentation pipelines, and API workflows that serve millions of developers and companies.
• Collaborate closely with product, design, research, API engineering, and developer-facing teams to make complex AI capabilities simple to understand, easy to test, and safe to launch in real-world applications.
• Design, build, and operate production APIs, services, databases, or developer tooling.
• Maintain high standards for reliability, performance, accessibility, and maintainability in production systems.
• Translate ambiguous developer problems into simple, high-quality product experiences using strong product judgment.
• Engage with external developer feedback loops and internal cross-functional teams to shape the next generation of OpenAI’s developer experience.
• Contribute to technical direction for systems that handle documentation generation, SDK publishing, and API reference pipelines.
• Iterate on developer onboarding flows to enable users to go from first request to production deployment quickly and confidently.
• Apply expertise in modern web application development using TypeScript and React to enhance frontend surfaces.
• Leverage backend proficiency in Python, Go, Rust, or TypeScript to support API infrastructure and tooling.
• Contribute to the evolution of developer tools and platforms with a focus on usability, clarity, and reliability.
• Prioritize developer empathy and product velocity in all engineering decisions.
• Work in a fast-moving environment with loosely defined problems and competing priorities while maintaining high-quality output.

🎯 Requirements

• 5+ years of professional engineering experience, excluding internships, in product-driven engineering teams.
• Strong experience with TypeScript, React, and modern web application development.
• Proficiency in one or more backend languages such as Python, Go, Rust, TypeScript, or similar.
• Experience designing, building, and operating production APIs, services, databases, or developer tooling.
• Strong product judgment and a track record of turning ambiguous developer problems into simple, high-quality product experiences.
• Experience with documentation systems, SDKs, API design, developer tools, or technical content pipelines is a strong plus.

🏖️ Benefits

• Opportunity to work on cutting-edge AI technology with global impact.
• Collaborative environment with cross-functional teams including product, design, research, and infrastructure.
• Ownership over critical developer-facing products that serve millions of users.
• High autonomy in shaping technical and product direction for a new NYC-based team.
• Access to OpenAI’s mission-driven culture focused on safety, human needs, and equitable AI benefits.
• Reasonable accommodations available for applicants with disabilities.

Skills & Technologies

Python

TypeScript

Rust

React

Backend

Onsite

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About OpenAI, Inc.

OpenAI is a San Francisco-based artificial intelligence research and deployment company founded in 2015. It develops large-scale AI models such as GPT, DALL-E, and Codex, providing cloud APIs and consumer applications like ChatGPT. Originally established as a non-profit, it later created a capped-profit subsidiary to attract capital while maintaining its mission to ensure artificial general intelligence benefits all of humanity.

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