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OpenAI

Principal Software Engineer, Identity

OpenAI
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about 3 hours ago
Mountain View, CA, USA or San Francisco, CA, USAStaff+
H1B Sponsor

Base Salary

$345k - $405k/yr

Responsibilities

  • Own the technical vision and architecture for the Enterprise Identity stack.
  • Lead the design of highly available, latency-sensitive identity systems.
  • Establish common identity models and primitives across OpenAI's products.
  • Set a high security bar by anticipating potential abuse cases and failure modes.
  • Drive alignment across enterprise product, infrastructure, and security partners.
  • Provide technical leadership to senior engineers and enhance architectural quality.

Requirements

  • Experience owning the architecture of a business-critical platform or large-scale distributed systems.
  • Proven ability to set multi-year technical direction and align teams on complex architectural decisions.
  • Understanding of enterprise identity, architecture, and operational needs of large customers.
  • Experience with SSO, SCIM, identity providers, tenant models, and permissions.
  • Security-minded approach to systems design with consideration for potential failures.
  • Ability to balance technical judgment, organizational influence, and hands-on leadership.

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