Base Salary
$293k - $385k/yr
Responsibilities
- Lead the architecture, development, and operation of identity infrastructure spanning cloud platforms, internal systems, and critical engineering services
- Design and evolve authentication, authorization, access governance, auditability, and policy enforcement systems
- Build foundational infrastructure and platform capabilities used by engineering, research, and security teams
- Improve the reliability, observability, performance, and operational maturity of identity infrastructure
- Lead ambiguous, high-impact technical initiatives across security, infrastructure, and engineering teams
- Partner with engineers, researchers, and security teams to develop scalable access patterns and secure infrastructure
- Raise engineering standards through technical judgment, system design, operational excellence, and long-term ownership
Requirements
- 10+ years of experience building and operating large-scale infrastructure, platform, or backend systems
- Deep experience with cloud infrastructure, identity systems, distributed systems, and infrastructure-as-code
- Experience leading complex technical initiatives across teams and driving architecture in ambiguous environments
- Experience building security-critical systems involving authentication, authorization, access governance, privileged access, or policy enforcement
- Strong software engineering fundamentals with experience in Go, Rust, Python, or similar languages
- Ability to debug across code, cloud infrastructure, identity systems, networking, and operations
- Strong focus on reliability, security, auditability, and operational rigor in mission-critical systems
Benefits
- Hybrid work model with three days in the San Francisco office per week
- Relocation assistance is offered to new employees
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.