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Business Platform Engineer

OpenAI · San Francisco

hybridunknown$211,000–$234,000Posted Nov 12, 2026

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## Business Platform Engineer ### 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’ll move between requirements, architecture, implementation, testing, rollout, and operational ownership—using functional expertise to deliver measurable outcomes. ### What You’ll Do - 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 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 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. ### Workplace & Location **San Francisco** ### About OpenAI OpenAI is an AI research and deployment company dedicated to ensuring general-purpose AI benefits all of humanity. OpenAI is an equal opportunity employer. *Additional policy and background-check information is included in the original posting.*

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