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# Software Engineer, Financial Engineering

- **Company:** OpenAI Inc.
- **Location:** San Francisco, CA, United States
- **Experience:** Expert
- **Salary:** $266,000.0
- **Contract:** Permanent contract
- **Skills:** Application Programming Interfaces (APIs), Data Integrity, Programming Tools, Distributed Systems, Software Engineering, Backend, Event Driven Architecture, Api Design
- **Published:** October 7, 2026
- **Apply:** https://diversityjobs.com/career/11202636/Software-Engineer-Financial-Engineering-California-San-Francisco

## About the Role

* Have 5+ years of professional software engineering experience building and operating production backend, platform, or distributed systems.
 * Have strong fundamentals in API design, data modeling, storage systems, transactional workflows, and event-driven architecture.
 * Have experience building systems where correctness, reliability, observability, security, or data integrity are especially important.
 * Are comfortable owning ambiguous, business-critical problems from initial definition through launch and long-term operation.
 * Bring a product-oriented mindset and care about creating simple, trustworthy experiences for both external customers and internal users.
 * Communicate clearly with technical and non-technical partners and enjoy working closely with Product, Finance, Accounting, Operations, Data, and Go-to-Market teams.
 * Make thoughtful tradeoffs between near-term delivery and long-term system quality.
 * Move quickly and independently in an environment where requirements evolve, priorities compete, and the right solution is not always obvious.

Nice to Have:

 * Experience with payments, subscriptions, billing, pricing, credits, entitlements, invoicing, revenue systems, or other monetization infrastructure.
 * Experience with high-scale financial or transactional systems, reconciliation workflows, compliance requirements, or audit controls.
 * Experience building shared platforms, APIs, frameworks, or developer tools used by multiple product teams.