Go Backend Engineer for AI Security Platforms

Slope; San Francisco (CA); On-site; USD 180,000 - 240,000; Full time

Job summary

OpenAI is seeking backend-focused Product Engineers to build infrastructure and workflows that enable developers and AI agents to operate reliably in parallel. You’ll primarily work in Go on APIs, networking, and orchestration for long-running tasks, owning outcomes from problem understanding to shipping and operation, in collaboration with frontend, infrastructure, and security engineers.

You’ll work with Go, APIs, distributed systems, Linux, containers, and cloud networking to design clear

Qualifications

• Proficient in Go and building production-grade backend services.
• Experience with distributed systems and fault-tolerant design.
• Familiarity with Linux, containers, and cloud networking.

Responsibilities

• Develop backend infrastructure and customer-facing workflows for developers and AI agents.
• Build Go services and APIs for provisioning environments and integrating with developer tools.
• Design reliable orchestration for long-running, parallel work with durable state and retries.
• Incorporate security into execution workflows with proper permissions and auditability.
• Own production quality including testing, rollouts, observability, and performance.

Skills

Go

Distributed systems

Linux

Containers

Cloud infrastructure

API design

Tools

Go services

APIs

Kubernetes

Job description

OpenAI is seeking backend-focused Product Engineers to build infrastructure and workflows that enable developers and AI agents to operate reliably in parallel. You’ll primarily work in Go on APIs, networking, and orchestration for long-running tasks, owning outcomes from problem understanding to shipping and operation, in collaboration with frontend, infrastructure, and security engineers.

You’ll work with Go, APIs, distributed systems, Linux, containers, and cloud networking to design clear