Senior/Staff Software Engineer, Enterprise AI Platform
At a glance
Senior ML Platform & Ops role at OpenArt AI. San Carlos · full-time · from $500,000 base.
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What you'll do
- Build team workspaces, role-based access, single sign-on and audit trails for enterprise customers
- Ship usage tracking, invoicing and payment flows that serve self-service teams and procurement processes
- Strengthen access controls, data separation, platform security and reliability, including compliance preparation
- Design multi-tenant services and APIs, plus React and Next.js tools for workspace, billing and admin tasks
- Turn founder, sales and customer needs into features, make infrastructure trade-offs and establish engineering direction
What you bring
- At least five years building and operating full-stack production software at scale
- Strong system design and data modeling skills across APIs, permissions, multi-tenancy and data isolation
- Practical background in cloud infrastructure, observability, scaling or reliability work
- You use AI coding assistants as a regular part of development and can explain what makes them effective
- You can assess B2B product needs and clearly explain technical choices to customers and nontechnical colleagues
Who this fits
This suits a senior full-stack engineer ready to own an enterprise platform from its early foundations and work directly with founders, sales teams and customers. The role spans product interfaces, backend services and infrastructure, and includes setting engineering direction as the first hire in this function. Bay Area candidates are preferred, with hybrid work available; visa sponsorship is offered.
From the employer
Senior/Staff Software Engineer, Enterprise AI Platform
🎨 About OpenArt
OpenArt is an AI storytelling and visual creation platform used by millions of creators worldwide. We're building the next generation of creative tools powered by cutting-edge AI — enabling anyone to create videos, visuals, characters, and stories with unprecedented speed and imagination.
We believe the future of creativity is AI-native, and we're shaping that future.
🚀 Why Join OpenArt
Brand-new function, real mandate — enterprise and team customers are one of our biggest growth levers, and most of the infrastructure behind them hasn't been built yet. You'll be the first engineer on it.
Small team, massive surface area — senior engineers own whole systems, not slices.
Real scale, real stakes — OpenArt serves millions of creators, and enterprise deals will close (or not) on what you ship.
Founder-led engineering culture — both founders are technical and deeply involved in product and architecture.
AI-native product — you'll decide how cutting-edge models get packaged, governed, and sold to teams and enterprises.
High ownership, low process — we value judgment, clarity, and speed over bureaucracy.
🎯 About the Role
We're hiring a senior engineer to build the product and infrastructure that lets OpenArt serve teams and enterprises, not just individual creators. That spans the full surface: workspaces and team management, roles and permissions, usage-based billing and procurement-friendly invoicing, audit logs, and the security posture — SSO, data controls, compliance groundwork — that larger customers expect before they'll sign.
This is a full-stack role in the enterprise function. You'll move between customer-facing product (admin consoles, billing UI, workspace settings) and the backend and infrastructure underneath it (access control, usage metering, payment integrations, hardening our systems for enterprise-grade reliability and security). You'll work directly with the founders to figure out, in real time, what "enterprise-ready" needs to mean for an AI-native creative platform — and then build it.
🛠 What You’ll Do
Design and build core enterprise primitives: organizations/workspaces, roles and permissions (RBAC), SSO/SAML, and audit logging
Build usage-based billing, invoicing, and payment infrastructure that supports both self-serve and enterprise procurement (e.g. Stripe)
Harden platform security and reliability to the bar enterprise customers expect — access control, data isolation, and groundwork for compliance certifications (e.g. SOC 2)
Design scalable backend architectures and APIs that support multi-tenant, team-based usage patterns
Build clean, polished frontend experiences (React/Next.js) for admin, billing, and workspace management
Partner directly with founders, sales, and customers to turn deal-blocking requirements into shipped platform features
Make pragmatic build-vs-buy calls on infrastructure (billing providers, auth providers, compliance tooling) and clearly communicate the trade-offs
Define OpenArt's enterprise engineering practices as the function's first hire, and help shape the team that grows around it
⚙ What We’re Looking For
Core Requirements
5+ years of full-stack engineering experience shipping and owning production systems at scale
Strong system design and data modeling skills — comfortable reasoning about APIs, permission models, multi-tenancy, and data isolation
Hands-on experience with infrastructure and platform work: cloud architecture, observability, scaling, or reliability engineering
A strong AI-assisted coding practice — you use tools like Claude Code, Codex, or Cursor as a core part of how you build, and have real opinions about what makes them work well
Product sense for B2B — you know what makes an admin console feel trustworthy to an IT buyer and a workspace feel effortless for a team
Strong communication skills — you can sit in a customer security review or a sales call, then translate what you heard into clear technical trade-offs for non-technical teammates
Nice to Have
Experience with payments or billing systems (e.g. Stripe): subscriptions, usage-based billing, invoicing, disputes
Experience with security or compliance work: SSO/SAML, RBAC, audit logging, SOC 2 / GDPR groundwork
Experience selling to or building for enterprise customers, including procurement and security-review cycles
Startup experience, or ownership of a large product surface from 0 to 1
💰 Compensation
$500k+ total compensation including base salary, bonus, equity
Equity - meaningful ownership in what you build
High autonomy, high growth environment
🌍 Work Setup
Bay Area preferred (hybrid available)
Visa sponsorship available
🎯 What Success Looks Like in 3–6 Months
Workspaces, roles, and permissions are live in production and used by paying teams
Enterprise billing — usage metering, invoicing, procurement-friendly payments — is shipped and stable
At least one enterprise deal has closed on the strength of features you built (e.g. SSO, audit logs)
SOC 2 groundwork is underway, and you can walk a customer's security team through our posture with confidence
You're setting the direction for enterprise engineering — pushing ideas, not waiting for specs
If you want to build the platform that turns a consumer AI product into an enterprise business — and own it from day one — we'd love to talk.