Senior Software Engineer, Ads Measurement & Privacy

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

Benefits offered by this job

Relocation assistance

Job summary

OpenAI's Monetization team seeks an experienced Software Engineer to build measurement systems that connect ad interactions to advertiser outcomes while safeguarding user privacy. You will design infrastructure for conversion signals, attribution, reporting, and feedback loops across the company’s ads products.

This role is ideal for engineers who have built large-scale ads measurement, data, experimentation, or distributed systems and want to apply that experience in a highly ambiguous 0→1

Qualifications

• 10+ years of experience building and operating large-scale distributed data or backend systems.
• Experience with conversion-event pipelines, attribution, deduplication, identity and matching, reporting, or related signals.
• Privacy-safe measurement design, including aggregation, consent handling, modeled conversions, or clean-room patterns.
• Ability to reason about data correctness, delayed/out-of-order events, and metric discrepancies.
• Experience with high-throughput batch or streaming systems and relevant tradeoffs.
• Collaboration with ML and data science for labels, experimentation, and causal measurement.
• Holistic architectural thinking with emphasis on privacy, trust, and advertiser value.
• Capacity to define direction in ambiguous 0→1 environments and drive cross-team work.
• Clear communication and decisions grounded in user value and system health.

Responsibilities

• Design and operate large‑scale conversion measurement systems across ads stack.
• Implement privacy‑preserving identity, matching, aggregation, and reporting.
• Develop scalable instrumentation for conversions, attribution windows, deduplication, and signal loss mitigation.
• Create data quality systems to detect missing, duplicated, or misconfigured signals.
• Build advertiser reporting and diagnostics for conversions, CPA, ROAS, and health metrics.
• Collaborate with Ads ML on labels and feedback loops for ranking, bidding, and budget optimization.
• Advance experimentation capabilities including holdouts and causal measurement foundations.
• Define technical strategy and roadmap for conversion measurement across delivery systems.
• Operate with rigorous testing, observability, privacy reviews, and incident response.

Skills

Large-scale distributed systems

Ads measurement / attribution

Privacy-preserving measurement

Data quality & correctness

Collaboration with ML & Data Science

Holistic system thinking

Strong communication

Job description

OpenAI's Monetization team seeks an experienced Software Engineer to build measurement systems that connect ad interactions to advertiser outcomes while safeguarding user privacy. You will design infrastructure for conversion signals, attribution, reporting, and feedback loops across the company’s ads products.

This role is ideal for engineers who have built large-scale ads measurement, data, experimentation, or distributed systems and want to apply that experience in a highly ambiguous 0→1