Software Engineer, Monetization Data Systems

About the Team

The Monetization Data Systems team builds the trusted data and product systems that power how the company develops, measures, and improves monetization products. We bring together product usage, pricing, billing, ads, payments, and financial data to help Product, Engineering, Finance, and GTM teams make better decisions and deliver reliable customer experiences.

We work at the intersection of data engineering, product engineering, platform engineering, Finance, and GTM. Our goal is to turn complex monetization and financial data into accurate, explainable, and timely data products while building systems that scale with the growth and complexity of the business.

You might thrive in this role if you:

• Possess a minimum of 7+ years of professional software engineering experience with deep experience building and operating production software systems, backend services, or distributed systems at scale.
• Are highly proficient in at least one general-purpose programming language such as Go, Java, Python, Rust, or C++, with strong computer science fundamentals.
• Have strong fundamentals in API design, data modeling, storage systems, distributed systems, and event-driven architecture.
• Have designed systems with rigorous correctness, reliability, observability, security, privacy, or access-control requirements.
• Can collaborate with cross-functional partners to identify needs, navigate ambiguity, and drive progress from problem definition through delivery.
• Bring a product-oriented mindset and communicate clearly with technical and non-technical partners, translating customer and business problems into simple, scalable system designs.
• Care deeply about correctness and operational reliability while maintaining a practical bias toward delivering customer and business value.
• Bring a strong sense of engineering excellence, using clear thinking, sound judgment, and a design-before-implementation approach to create maintainable systems.
• Command strong sense of engineering excellence, contribute to a design-before-implementation approach with clear documentation, and knowledge sharing across teams to elevate the broader engineering organization.

About OpenAI

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