Business Platform Engineer
OpenAI
San Francisco, CA · $211k–$234k a year · Posted November 12, 2026
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About the job
About the Team
Enterprise Platform Engineering builds products and capabilities that improve enterprise workflows, partnering closely with engineering, functional teams, and system owners.
About the Role
As a Business Platform Engineer, you will translate business problems into reliable software and workflows. You will move between requirements, architecture, implementation, testing, rollout, and operational ownership, using functional expertise to deliver measurable outcomes.
Workplace & Location
San Francisco
In this role, you will:
- Translate business workflows into requirements, process and data definitions, exception handling, and acceptance criteria.
- Build services, APIs, integrations, data flows, and automation with maintainable code and meaningful tests.
- Own delivery from design and implementation through validation, deployment, support, and continuous improvement.
- Design permissions, approvals, auditability, retries, idempotency, reconciliation, and recovery appropriate to the workflow.
- Partner with business and system owners on prioritization, operational readiness, and adoption.
- Measure reliability, quality, cycle time, and user outcomes; turn successful solutions into reusable capabilities.
You might thrive in this role if you:
- Have demonstrated experience building and operating software that solves business problems.
- Bring functional understanding of finance, procurement, accounting, or adjacent enterprise workflows, and can learn an unfamiliar domain.
- Can write and debug code and reason about APIs, integrations, data models, and system boundaries.
- Understand controls, failure modes, testing, and reliable production operation.
- Can structure ambiguous problems and turn them into practical increments with clear tradeoffs.
- Communicate clearly across engineering and business teams and follow through on delivery and adoption.
Preferred signals
- Experience turning specialist knowledge into reusable tools, data products, or workflow capabilities.
- Practical AI-assisted workflow experience with evaluation, human review, monitoring, and controlled actions.
- Evidence of enabling others to adopt a capability and measuring the resulting improvement.
About OpenAI
OpenAI is an AI research and deployment company dedicated to ensuring that general-purpose artificial intelligence benefits all of humanity. We push the boundaries of the capabilities of AI systems and seek to safely deploy them to the world through our products. AI is an extremely powerful tool that must be created with safety and human needs at its core, and to achieve our mission, we must encompass and value the many different perspectives, voices, and experiences that form the full spectrum of humanity.
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