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Backend Software Engineer, Applied Foundations

OpenAI
Location
Remote
Work mode
Remote
Type
full time
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[ About this role ]

Backend Software Engineer on the Applied Foundations team at OpenAI. This role involves designing and implementing safe services and infrastructure for core products like ChatGPT and Codex. Responsibilities include architecting scalable backend systems, driving performance and reliability, and collaborating on solutions for security and adversarial attack mitigation.

Skills and focus areas

  • distributed systems
  • apis
  • backend languages
  • go
  • python
  • rust
  • c++
  • production backend services
  • data pipelines
  • resilient services
  • large scale systems
  • complex systems

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