Software Engineer, Identity Infrastructure

AI research and deployment company building and deploying frontier AI products, including ChatGPT, Codex, and its API platform.

41 current maintainers27 active leads7 new active leads120 lead step-downs17 early lead departures
San Francisco, United States
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 design and build secure access proxies, gateways and credential brokers, integrate identity and access policy across clients and systems, build observability, engineer safe multi-region rollouts, keep core services reliable, and make secure access easy to adopt through APIs and tooling.

Requirements

  • Built and operated production backend, proxy, networking or infrastructure services at scale
  • Practical networking depth: HTTP, TCP, TLS, DNS, routing, load balancing
  • Understanding of authentication, authorization, least privilege and credential handling
  • Strong software engineering fundamentals with Go, Rust, Python or similar
  • Use tests, profiling and telemetry to debug and verify systems

Responsibilities

  • Design and implement secure access proxies, gateways, and credential brokers
  • Integrate identity and access policy across clients, proxies, and target systems
  • Build observability for the end-to-end access path
  • Engineer safe multi-region rollouts, canaries, rollback, failover and recovery
  • Keep core access services reliable, performant and maintainable, owning production support
  • Build reusable APIs, client tooling and self-service workflows
  • Lead migrations with tested rollback and recovery paths

Benefits

  • Medical, dental, and vision insurance with HSA employer contributions
  • Pre-tax Health FSA, Dependent Care FSA, and commuter accounts
  • 401(k) with employer match
  • Paid parental leave, medical and caregiver leave
  • Flexible PTO
  • 13+ paid company holidays and 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
  • Equity
  • Performance-related bonus
  • Charitable donation matching and wellness stipends