Base Salary
$278k - $490k/yr
Responsibilities
- Own the architecture and roadmap for core security services such as authentication and authorization, policy enforcement, secure proxies, and key management from design through long-term operation.
- Design and implement planet-scale security systems spanning hardware, operating systems, Kubernetes, networks, and CI/CD while balancing security, reliability, latency, and developer ergonomics.
- Lead cross-functional launches with infrastructure and research engineering teams, including interface design, migration planning, and safe fleet-wide rollouts.
- Build and evolve security primitives for identity, attestation, authorization, encryption key lifecycle, and access mediation.
- Use frontier models and agents to develop automation and detection tooling for identifying and mitigating risks across cloud and on-premises environments.
- Lead design reviews and threat models for major initiatives and drive closure of systemic issues.
- Mentor InfraSec and partner-team engineers while improving engineering quality, operational readiness, and secure-by-default practices.
Requirements
- Strong software engineering skills and a track record of shipping and operating reliable distributed systems in production.
- Experience building or operating critical infrastructure, particularly security infrastructure such as authentication services, service-to-service proxies, certificate systems, or key-management systems, at planet scale.
- Deep understanding of security principles, best practices, and common vulnerabilities.
- Demonstrated ability to lead cross-team technical initiatives by setting direction, aligning stakeholders, driving execution, and delivering measurable outcomes.
- Expertise and curiosity in using frontier models and agents to solve security challenges.
- Expertise securing large-scale cloud platforms, including Azure, AWS, and GCP, with experience in multi-cloud networks and cloud-agnostic system design.
- Proactive ability to identify and address security gaps or inefficiencies through automation and tooling.
- Strong analytical and problem-solving skills with the ability to critically and objectively assess risks.
- Excellent communication skills for conveying complex security concepts to executive, technical, and non-technical stakeholders.
Tech Stack
About OpenAI
OpenAI is an AI research and deployment company dedicated to ensuring that general-purpose artificial intelligence benefits all of humanity. AI is an extremely powerful tool that must be created with safety and human needs at its core. OpenAI is dedicated to putting that alignment of interests first — ahead of profit. To achieve our mission, we must encompass and value the many different perspectives, voices, and experiences that form the full spectrum of humanity. Our investment in diversity, equity, and inclusion is ongoing, executed through a wide range of initiatives, and championed and supported by leadership. At OpenAI, we believe artificial intelligence has the potential to help people solve immense global challenges, and we want the upside of AI to be widely shared. Join us in shaping the future of technology.