Go Backend Engineer — AI Security Platform

OpenAI; United States; Remote; USD 150,000 - 190,000; Full time

Job summary

OpenAI's Defense Factory team is hiring backend-focused Product Engineers to design and build infrastructure and customer-facing workflows that empower developers and AI agents to operate reliably in secure, customer-controlled cloud environments.

You'll mainly work in Go on APIs, orchestration for long-running tasks, durable state, retries, and recovery, collaborating with frontend, infra, and security engineers to ship robust solutions that address complex security challenges.

Qualifications

• Backend-focused role building infrastructure and customer workflows.
• Go-based services and APIs for provisioning and orchestration.
• Collaborate across frontend, infrastructure, and security teams.

Responsibilities

• Work with customers to build developer and security workflows from project setup to verification of fixes.
• Build Go services and APIs for provisioning cloud environments and agent execution in customer infrastructure.
• Design reliable orchestration for long-running, parallel work with durable state, retries, cancellation, and recovery.

Skills

Go programming

APIs design

Distributed systems

Customer collaboration

Tools

CI/CD pipelines

Source control

Job description

OpenAI's Defense Factory team is hiring backend-focused Product Engineers to design and build infrastructure and customer-facing workflows that empower developers and AI agents to operate reliably in secure, customer-controlled cloud environments.

You'll mainly work in Go on APIs, orchestration for long-running tasks, durable state, retries, and recovery, collaborating with frontend, infra, and security engineers to ship robust solutions that address complex security challenges.