Software Engineer, Codex App
About the Team The Codex App team owns the desktop application and IDE extension that bring Codex into developers’ daily workflows. We build product experiences end-to-end, and we care equally about usability, performance, and reliability.
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Software Engineer, Codex App at OpenAI in San Francisco. UpJobz keeps this listing high-signal for applicants targeting serious high-tech roles across the United States, Canada, and Mexico. About the Team The Codex App team owns the desktop application and IDE extension that bring Codex into developers’ daily workflows. We build product experiences end-to-end, and we care equally about usability, performance, and reliability.
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- Build end-to-end features across the Electron app (UI + Node/TypeScript backend layers).
- Design robust integrations with the Codex CLI and app server (Rust), including process lifecycle, streaming output, and error handling.
- Own IPC architecture and patterns (renderer/main boundaries, message schemas, backpressure, safety, debugging).
- Build systems for orchestration: long-running tasks, incremental progress updates, cancellation, retries, and state synchronization.
- Improve reliability, observability, and performance (logging/tracing/metrics, profiling, crash/debug tooling).
- Partner with design and product to turn ambiguous needs into crisp, shippable workflows.
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