Full Stack Software Engineer, Monetization Platform

📋 Job Overview

As AI becomes capable of doing more useful work, the way people access and pay for it needs to evolve. Monetization Platform is a new team within Growth building the systems and experiences that make that possible across the entire suite of OpenAI products. Our mission is to make powerful AI easier to access, its value easier to understand, and new ways of using it easier to bring to market.

🏢 About OpenAI

We work where product experience, platform architecture, and business strategy meet. A new plan or pricing model can change what customers can accomplish—and requires careful engineering across eligibility, entitlements, usage, and subscriptions. We turn that complexity into capabilities that product teams can build on and experiences that customers can trust.

🎯 The Role

We’re looking for experienced Staff+ and Senior engineers who combine full-stack product instincts with strong backend and systems depth. You’ll help decide what to build, establish the architecture, and carry ideas through to working products—from a customer’s first interaction with a plan to the services that determine what they can access and use.

✅ Key Responsibilities

• Define and build shared pricing and packaging capabilities, including plan configuration, eligibility, entitlement integrations, and usage allowances.
• Create intuitive plan and usage experiences across the stack, connecting polished interfaces to product APIs and backend services.
• Turn new commercial ideas into working prototypes and experiments with Product, Finance, and Data Science, then use what you learn to guide the next iteration.
• Design integrations with Financial Engineering that preserve correct access and subscription state through plan changes, migrations, asynchronous updates, and partial failures.
• Build reusable components and configuration tools that let teams launch offerings with less custom engineering and fewer dependencies.
• Take responsibility for production quality through migration planning, staged rollouts, testing, monitoring, and recovery paths.
• Shape the technical roadmap, make clear tradeoffs between immediate launches and shared foundations, and develop other engineers through code and design reviews.

📌 Required Qualifications

• Have set architectural direction and delivered significant projects involving multiple teams, while remaining an active contributor to the code.
• Bring depth in backend or distributed systems and can work across the APIs and interfaces that turn those systems into useful products.
• Reason rigorously about data models, lifecycle transitions, consistency, concurrency, and what happens when an operation fails or runs twice.
• Have taken loosely defined customer or business problems through discovery, implementation, and production operation.
• Combine product intuition with experimentation and analysis, and care about whether customers understand and benefit from what you build.
• Enjoy establishing new capabilities: choosing an initial design, shipping something useful, and improving it as the problem becomes clearer.

🎁 Benefits

Medical, dental, and vision insurance for you and your family, with employer contributions to Health Savings Accounts
Pre-tax accounts for Health FSA, Dependent Care FSA, and commuter expenses (parking and transit)
401(k) retirement plan with employer match
Paid parental leave (up to 24 weeks for birth parents and 20 weeks for non-birthing parents), plus paid medical and caregiver leave (up to 8 weeks)
Paid time off: flexible PTO for exempt employees and up to 15 days annually for non-exempt employees
13+ paid company holidays, and multiple paid coordinated company office closures throughout the year for focus and recharge, plus paid sick or safe time (1 hour per 30 hours worked, or more, as required by applicable state or local law)
Mental health and wellness support
Employer-paid basic life and disability coverage
Annual learning and development stipend to fuel your professional growth
Daily meals in our offices, and meal delivery credits as eligible
Relocation support for eligible employees
Additional taxable fringe benefits, such as charitable donation matching and wellness stipends, may also be provided.

🛂 Visa & Eligibility

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.