OpenAI

Principal Software Engineer, Identity

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2 months 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, including SSO, SCIM, tenant architecture, groups, permissions, and enterprise administration identity capabilities.
  • Lead the design and evolution of highly available, latency-sensitive identity systems serving global enterprise customers.
  • Establish common identity models and primitives across OpenAI products.
  • Set a high security bar by anticipating abuse cases, failure modes, and long-term implications of new capabilities.
  • Align enterprise product, infrastructure, and security partners and influence roadmaps beyond the immediate team.
  • Provide technical leadership to senior engineers and raise architecture and execution quality across the organization.

Requirements

  • Experience owning the architecture of a broad, business-critical platform or large-scale distributed-systems domain at the senior-staff level.
  • Experience setting multi-year technical direction and aligning multiple teams around complex architectural decisions.
  • Understanding of enterprise identity, enterprise architecture, and the operational needs of large customers in multi-product environments.
  • Experience with SSO, SCIM, identity providers, tenant models, permissions, groups, or adjacent identity infrastructure.
  • A security-minded, adversarial approach to systems design, including consideration of failure modes and abuse cases.
  • Ability to combine deep technical judgment, organizational influence, and hands-on leadership.

Benefits

  • The role is based in the San Francisco or Mountain View office.
  • Reasonable accommodations are available for applicants with disabilities.

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OpenAI

About OpenAI

10,000+ employees

OpenAI builds and deploys large-scale AI models and tools—including ChatGPT, GPT-4–class models, DALL·E, and Whisper—sold via APIs and enterprise subscriptions to developers and businesses. It monetizes through usage-based API pricing and ChatGPT Plus/Team/Enterprise, and also reaches customers via Microsoft’s Azure OpenAI Service. Founded in 2015 and headquartered in San Francisco, it operates as a private partnership.

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