Why This Job is Featured on The SaaS Jobs
Modern SaaS companies increasingly treat experimentation as core infrastructure, not an analytics add on. This role sits inside an internal platform team responsible for the systems that make product measurement consistent and statistically trustworthy across a large, multi product environment. That focus on canonical datasets and reliable pipelines reflects how mature SaaS organizations operationalize decision making at scale.
For a data engineering career in SaaS, the work maps to durable problems: event data modeling, metric definitions, governance, and building fault tolerant ingestion that downstream teams can rely on. The remit also touches adjacent domains that often separate strong SaaS data engineers from pipeline builders, including causal inference literacy, experimentation methodology, and partnering with product and research stakeholders who consume the data in different ways.
The role best fits someone who prefers platform thinking over one off analyses, and who enjoys negotiating shared definitions across teams. It also suits engineers who like working close to product iteration cycles while keeping an infrastructure mindset around correctness, security, and long term maintainability. Comfort operating in a hybrid setting where technical design benefits from in person collaboration would be a practical advantage.
The section above is editorial commentary from The SaaS Jobs, provided to help SaaS professionals understand the role in a broader industry context.
Job Description
About the Team
The Statsig team at OpenAI builds and operates the experimentation platform that powers product development, measurement, and decision-making across the company. We partner closely with product, engineering, and infrastructure teams to ensure experiments are trustworthy, statistically rigorous, and scalable to the needs of frontier AI products.
Our mission is to help teams make better decisions through reliable experimentation. We care deeply about statistical correctness, pragmatic solutions, and building systems that researchers and engineers can trust at massive scale. The team operates at the intersection of experimentation methodology, data infrastructure, causal inference, and product analytics.
We are looking for experienced experimentation experts who want to shape the future of experimentation in the AI era.
About the role:
We're seeking a Data Engineer to take the lead in building our data pipelines and core tables for OpenAI. These pipelines are crucial for powering analyses, safety systems that guide business decisions, product growth, and prevent bad actors. If you're passionate about working with data and are eager to create solutions with significant impact, we'd love to hear from you. This role also provides the opportunity to collaborate closely with the researchers behind ChatGPT and help them train new models to deliver to users. As we continue our rapid growth, we value data-driven insights, and your contributions will play a pivotal role in our trajectory. Join us in shaping the future of OpenAI!
In this role, you will:
Design, build and manage our data pipelines, ensuring all user event data is seamlessly integrated into our data warehouse.
Develop canonical datasets to track key product metrics including user growth, engagement, and revenue.
Work collaboratively with various teams, including, Infrastructure, Data Science, Product, Marketing, Finance, and Research to understand their data needs and provide solutions.
Implement robust and fault-tolerant systems for data ingestion and processing.
Participate in data architecture and engineering decisions, bringing your strong experience and knowledge to bear.
Ensure the security, integrity, and compliance of data according to industry and company standards.
You might thrive in this role if you:
Have 3+ years of experience as a data engineer and 8+ years of any software engineering experience(including data engineering).
Proficiency in at least one programming language commonly used within Data Engineering, such as Python, Scala, or Java.
Experience with distributed processing technologies and frameworks, such as Hadoop, Flink and distributed storage systems (e.g., HDFS, S3).
Expertise with any of ETL schedulers such as Airflow, Dagster, Prefect or similar frameworks.
Solid understanding of Spark and ability to write, debug and optimize Spark code.
This role is based in Bellevue. We use a hybrid work model and value in-person collaboration for technical design, iteration, and cross-functional partnership.
Compensation Range: $293K - $325K USD
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.
We are an equal opportunity employer, and we do not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, color, national origin, sex, sexual orientation, age, veteran status, disability, genetic information, or other applicable legally protected characteristic.
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