Senior Staff Software Engineer, Identity
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 own the technical vision and architecture of the Enterprise Identity stack, including SSO, SCIM, tenant architecture, groups and permissions. You will design highly available, latency-sensitive systems, establish common identity primitives across products, set a high security bar, align enterprise product, infrastructure and security partners, and provide technical leadership to senior engineers.
Requirements
- Owned architecture of a broad, business-critical platform or large-scale distributed-systems domain at senior-staff level
- Set multi-year technical direction and aligned multiple teams
- Understanding of enterprise identity and enterprise architecture
- Experience with SSO, SCIM, identity providers, tenant models, permissions, groups
- Security-minded approach to systems design
Responsibilities
- Own the technical vision and architecture for the Enterprise Identity stack
- Lead design and evolution of highly available, latency-sensitive identity systems
- Establish common identity models and primitives across products
- Set a high security bar by anticipating abuse cases and failure modes
- Drive alignment across enterprise product, infrastructure and security partners
- Provide technical leadership to senior engineers
Benefits
- Equity
- Performance-related bonus
- Medical, dental, and vision insurance with HSA employer contributions
- Health FSA, Dependent Care FSA, and commuter pre-tax 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
- 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
