Software Engineer, Enterprise Controls
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.
Skills
Candidate Availability
Required and preferred rules are kept separate and reflect the wording in the original posting.
About the Role
You will design and build backend services for permissions, authorization and governance across ChatGPT, Codex and OpenAI APIs. You will develop sharing capabilities between people and agents, build reusable services and APIs for workspace administration, lead architecture and delivery of complex initiatives, and own reliability, security and performance. The role is based in San Francisco.
Requirements
- 9+ years of professional backend software engineering experience
- Deep backend expertise shipping complex product or platform capabilities
- Technical leadership experience
- Proficiency in a backend language such as Python, Go, Rust, Java, or C++
- Experience designing distributed services, APIs and data models
- Experience building authorization, permissions or enterprise governance systems
- Strong product judgment and communication skills
- Track record of owning production systems
Responsibilities
- Design and build backend services for permissions, authorization and governance
- Develop sharing capabilities between people and agents with clear access rules
- Build reusable services and APIs for workspace administration and console experiences
- Lead architecture and delivery for complex initiatives
- Translate enterprise needs into clear configuration and predictable permission behavior
- Own reliability, security and performance of shipped services
Benefits
- Equity
- 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, medical and caregiver leave
- Flexible PTO
- 13+ paid company holidays and company office closures
- Mental health and wellness support
- Employer-paid 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
