Senior/Staff Software Engineer, Enterprise AI Platform
First engineer on OpenArt's enterprise platform, building workspaces, RBAC, SSO/SAML, audit logs, usage-based billing (Stripe) and SOC 2 groundwork. Full-stack: React/Next.js admin and billing UIs plus scalable multi-tenant backend and infrastructure.
- Compensation
- $500K / yr
- Location
- San Carlos, California, USA
- Work setup
- Hybrid
- Seniority
- Staff
- Employment
- Not specified
- Experience
- 5+ years
- Category
- Software engineering
- Posted
Skills
Must have
- 5+ years of full-stack engineering experience shipping and owning production systems at scale
- Strong system design and data modeling skills — APIs, permission models, multi-tenancy, data isolation
- Hands-on infrastructure/platform experience: cloud architecture, observability, scaling, reliability engineering
- Strong AI-assisted coding practice using tools like Claude Code, Codex, or Cursor as a core part of workflow
- Product sense for B2B — trustworthy admin consoles and effortless team workspaces
- Strong communication skills — customer security reviews, sales calls, translating technical trade-offs
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 building for or selling to enterprise customers, including procurement and security-review cycles
- Startup experience, or ownership of a large product surface from 0 to 1
Full description
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)