Software Engineer, Monetization Product & Platform

Details

The Monetization team is a cross-functional group working across engineering, product, research, and design to build foundational systems that help OpenAI scale access to intelligence responsibly. Its mission is to develop user-first, privacy-preserving monetization products, including next-generation advertising experiences, while upholding user trust, safety, privacy, and policy standards.

The team operates in a greenfield environment and moves quickly through prototyping, experimentation, and iterative deployment. The role focuses on building core monetization and advertising systems, including infrastructure, APIs, and user-facing experiences.

Responsibilities

• Design, build, and scale the core infrastructure behind OpenAI's monetization and advertising products.
• Develop advertiser-facing APIs and tools for creating, managing, and measuring advertisements.
• Build integrations with external partners and help create enterprise-grade monetization products.
• Architect distributed systems and services operating at massive scale with strong reliability, usability, privacy, and performance guarantees.
• Work closely with Product, Research, and Design to translate product requirements into high-quality technical solutions.
• Drive 0-to-1 product development through rapid prototyping, experimentation, and iterative deployment.
• Contribute to technical strategy, propose new directions, and help shape the monetization and advertising platform roadmap.
• Maintain strong engineering rigor through testing, documentation, and operational best practices.
• Uphold safety, privacy, fairness, and policy compliance across monetization systems.
• Help refine engineering processes, culture, and best practices within a fast-moving, multidisciplinary team.

Requirements

• 7+ years of experience building high-scale consumer, enterprise, or advertising-related systems.
• Track record of architecting and delivering complex distributed systems with high reliability and performance requirements.
• Ability to navigate ambiguous product spaces and contribute to technical roadmaps and long-term direction.
• Strong product intuition and a collaborative approach with Product, Design, and Research.
• Experience working in 0-to-1 environments where systems, architecture, and user experiences are defined from scratch.
• Clear communication, holistic thinking, and decision-making rooted in user needs and long-term sustainability.
• Motivation to build privacy-preserving, safe, and user-first monetization systems.
• Experience with advertising systems, marketplaces, or other monetization-heavy domains is a bonus.

Benefits

• Equity, performance-related bonuses for eligible employees, and a base salary of $230,000–$385,000 per year.
• Medical, dental, and vision insurance, with employer contributions to Health Savings Accounts.
• Pre-tax accounts for health, dependent care, and commuter expenses.
• 401(k) retirement plan with employer match.
• Paid parental, medical, and caregiver leave.
• Paid time off, paid company holidays, office closures, and paid sick or safe time.
• Mental health and wellness support.
• Employer-paid basic life and disability coverage.
• Annual learning and development stipend.
• Daily office meals and eligible meal delivery credits.
• Relocation support for eligible employees.

OpenAI is an equal opportunity employer and is committed to providing reasonable accommodations to applicants with disabilities. Background checks are administered in accordance with applicable law.