Software Engineer, Agent Productivity

What this role involves

OpenAI is hiring a Staff Software Engineer for the Agent Productivity team within Application Engineering. The role focuses on building secure, scalable foundations for agents, with Slack as the primary implementation surface. Responsibilities include defining platform architecture, designing permission-aware services, and establishing patterns for connectivity, governance, and observability.

Skills this posting asks for

• slack
• api design
• distributed systems
• backend engineering
• developer platforms
• reusable tooling
• shared services
• identity
• permissions
• authorization
• governance
• observability
• automation
• sdk
• connectors
• templates
• testing tools
• deployment patterns
• credential rotation
• incident response
• enterprise applications
• integration
• security
• privacy

Requirements

• Level: staff

From the employer’s posting

About the Team OpenAI’s Application Engineering team builds the internal products and platforms that help OpenAI operate securely and at scale. We engineer, own, and evolve OpenAI’s core productivity ecosystem, creating secure applications, integrations, automation, and reusable tooling where off-…