# Software Engineer at OpenAlex

- Company: OpenAlex
- Status: Open
- Workplace: Remote
- Location: See post
- Level: Mid-level
- Discipline: Engineering
- Employment: Full-time
- Posted: 2026-09-01
- Skills: API, Research
- Apply: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49524920

## Description

OpenAlex | Software Engineer | Remote | Full-time | $150–200k USD OpenAlex is an open index of the world's scholarly research: hundreds of millions of articles linked to authors, institutions, and topics, free via API and bulk download. Traffic runs about a billion API calls per month from universities, governments, and AI companies. The team behind it is a small nonprofit funded by grants and enterprise support. We're hiring two engineers to work across the whole backend, which is SQL and PySpark on Databricks, Python/Flask APIs, Elasticsearch, and Cloudflare Workers. It's a small team with lots of autonomy. You'll notice what's missing, build it, ship it, and answer the tickets about it. We're AI-native, with agents writing all of our code. Apply here: https://openalex.org/jobs/software-engineer

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