Senior/Staff Software Engineer, Enterprise AI Platform

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.