Security Engineer, Infrastructure Security
AI research and deployment company building and deploying frontier AI products, including ChatGPT, Codex, and its API platform.
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About OpenAI
OpenAI’s mission is to ensure artificial general intelligence benefits all of humanity. It consists of the nonprofit OpenAI Foundation and OpenAI Group, a public benefit corporation governed by the Foundation.
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About the Role
You will join the Infrastructure Security team protecting OpenAI's research and production environments, including GPU clusters, multi-cloud infrastructure, datacenters, networking and storage. You will design and build security controls across many layers to defend against sophisticated adversaries and insider threats, collaborate with engineering and security teams to roll out improvements, and tackle projects such as checkpoint encryption, network isolation, secret management and machine identity.
Requirements
- Deep understanding of security principles, best practices and common vulnerabilities
- Ability to address security gaps through automation and tooling
- Track record of delivering scalable solutions across infrastructure
- Expertise in cloud platform security (AWS, Azure), multi-cloud networks and cloud-agnostic design
- Experience securing on-prem deployments and datacenters
- Familiarity with container security, orchestration security and authentication/authorization
- Strong analytical and problem-solving skills
- Excellent communication skills
Responsibilities
- Design and build security controls across hardware, firmware/BMC, OS, Kubernetes, networks and CI/CD
- Collaborate with engineering and security teams to deploy security enhancements at scale
- Lead projects such as checkpoint encryption, network isolation, secret management and machine identity
- Take a generalist approach to building security controls for evolving challenges
Benefits
- Equity
- Performance-related bonus
- Medical, dental and vision insurance with employer HSA contributions
- Pre-tax Health FSA, Dependent Care FSA and commuter accounts
- 401(k) with employer match
- Paid parental leave (up to 24 weeks birth parents, 20 weeks non-birthing parents)
- Paid medical and caregiver leave (up to 8 weeks)
- Flexible PTO for exempt employees; up to 15 days for non-exempt
- 13+ paid company holidays and company office closures
- Paid sick or safe time
- Mental health and wellness support
- Employer-paid basic life and disability coverage
- Annual learning and development stipend
- Daily meals in offices and meal delivery credits
- Relocation support
- Charitable donation matching and wellness stipends
