Platform Engineer, Plugin Ecosystem & Developer APIs

OpenAI; San Francisco (CA); Hybrid; USD 185,000 - 490,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Relocation support

Medical insurance

Paid parental leave

401(k)

Job summary

OpenAI in San Francisco is seeking a Software Engineer for the Plugin Ecosystem to build the systems behind plugins and improve how models use them. You will own APIs, SDKs, and services that developers leverage to extend ChatGPT and Codex, while collaborating across teams to drive plugin usage and reliability.

The role is hybrid, based in San Francisco with three in-office days per week, and relocation assistance is available for new employees.

Qualifications

• Experience designing and shipping robust APIs and services for external developers.
• Comfort with distributed systems and scaling backend components.
• Ability to balance product and engineering tradeoffs in plugin ecosystems.

Responsibilities

• Design and ship APIs, SDKs, and services that developers use to extend ChatGPT and Codex.
• Build intuitive experiences for discovering, installing, and using plugins.
• Improve plugin reliability and integration across models and products.
• Collaborate across Engineering, Product, Research, Security, and Trust & Safety to scale plugin infrastructure.

Skills

API design

Distributed systems

Backend engineering

OpenAI plugins

Tools

Python

Go

Kubernetes

Job description

OpenAI in San Francisco is seeking a Software Engineer for the Plugin Ecosystem to build the systems behind plugins and improve how models use them. You will own APIs, SDKs, and services that developers leverage to extend ChatGPT and Codex, while collaborating across teams to drive plugin usage and reliability.

The role is hybrid, based in San Francisco with three in-office days per week, and relocation assistance is available for new employees.