Ads Integrity Backend Engineer

Showcify; United States; Remote; USD 150,000 - 210,000; Full time

Job summary

OpenAI is seeking an experienced Software Engineer to build the backend systems and infrastructure that keep OpenAI’s ads products safe, trustworthy, and resilient to abuse. In this foundational role, you will design systems that detect, prevent, and respond to harmful, deceptive, fraudulent, or policy‑violating activity across the ads lifecycle.

This role is based in San Francisco with relocation assistance.

Qualifications

• Significant experience building and operating large-scale backend or distributed systems.
• Experience in integrity, trust and safety, anti-abuse, fraud, risk, security, or related adversarial domains.
• Experience with production risk infrastructure and detectors.
• Ability to reason about threat models and system architecture.
• Ability to collaborate with ML teams without being ML domain expert.
• Strong cross-team communication and collaboration skills.

Responsibilities

• Design and build large-scale backend systems that detect and prevent harmful, deceptive, fraudulent, or policy-violating activity across the ads ecosystem.
• Build low-latency integrity infrastructure capable of evaluating risk signals and making decisions in or near real time.
• Develop scalable risk-signal pipelines, decision systems, rules and enforcement infrastructure across the advertiser and ads lifecycle.
• Build advertiser onboarding, business verification, account-risk, fraud-detection, and abuse-prevention capabilities.
• Develop systems that support ads-specific content safety and enable detection and enforcement of unsafe, misleading, or policy-violating ads.
• Build protections against spam, fraudulent interactions, manipulation, and other adversarial behaviors.
• Partner with ML teams to integrate classifiers and model-based signals into production integrity systems.
• Build feedback loops, review systems, and integrity metrics that improve detection quality while managing false positives.
• Create tooling and infrastructure for investigations and fast, explainable decisions.
• Engineer systems that adapt as adversaries change tactics and support experimentation and incident response.
• Partner with Ads Engineering to integrate integrity protections across the ads platform without compromising reliability.
• Help define the technical strategy and architecture for Ads Integrity as the product evolves.

Job description

OpenAI is seeking an experienced Software Engineer to build the backend systems and infrastructure that keep OpenAI’s ads products safe, trustworthy, and resilient to abuse. In this foundational role, you will design systems that detect, prevent, and respond to harmful, deceptive, fraudulent, or policy‑violating activity across the ads lifecycle.

This role is based in San Francisco with relocation assistance.