Full Stack Software Engineer, Monetization Platform
Company: OpenAI
Location: San Francisco
Salary: $266k - $445k per year
Type: Full-time
Posted: 2026-10-23
About this role
About the Team
As AI becomes capable of doing more useful work, the way people access and pay for it needs to evolve. Monetization Platform is a new team within Growth building the systems and experiences that make that possible across the entire suite of OpenAI products. Our mission is to make powerful AI easier to access, its value easier to understand, and new ways of using it easier to bring to market.
We work where product experience, platform architecture, and business strategy meet. A new plan or pricing model can change what customers can accomplish—and requires careful engineering across eligibility, entitlements, usage, and subscriptions. We turn that complexity into capabilities that product teams can build on and experiences that customers can trust.
Working with Product, Design, Finance, Financial Engineering, and Data Science, we’re shaping a platform that can evolve alongside our models and products. This is an opportunity to help define a new team’s technical direction and build systems that expand what OpenAI can offer.
About the Role
We’re looking for experienced Staff+ and Senior engineers who combine full-stack product instincts with strong backend and systems depth. You’ll help decide what to build, establish the architecture, and carry ideas through to working products—from a customer’s first interaction with a plan to the services that determine what they can access and use.
The work spans new pricing and packaging capabilities, plan and usage experiences, and the shared UIs and tools that make launches repeatable. You’ll partner closely with Financial Engineering to connect these capabilities to subscription and billing systems, keeping customer access and state consistent as offerings evolve.
You’ll have substantial ownership over technical decisions and delivery in an area where the roadmap is still taking shape. Your impact will show up in the experiences you ship, the engineering work you eliminate from future launches, and...