Base Salary
$230k - $325k/yr
Responsibilities
- Design and operate data storage pipelines at scale.
- Build search and discovery services using systems such as Spark, Databricks, index layers, and metadata catalogs.
- Automate secure data transfers with encryption, checksumming, and auditing for reviewer exports.
- Establish locked-down compute environments that balance usability with security controls.
- Instrument monitoring and KPIs for data holds and productions.
- Collaborate across teams to codify SOPs, threat models, and chain-of-custody documentation.
Requirements
- Hands-on experience building or operating large-scale data-lake or backup systems.
- Experience with at least one of Azure, AWS, or GCP.
- Knowledge of Terraform or Pulumi and CI/CD.
- Ability to turn ad-hoc legal requests into repeatable pipelines.
- Experience with discovery workflows such as legal holds, enterprise document collections, or secure review, or willingness to develop that expertise quickly.
- Ability to communicate technical concepts clearly to Legal, Engineering, and other teams.
- Experience shipping secure solutions that balance speed, cost, and evidentiary defensibility.
- Strong documentation and cross-disciplinary communication skills, including the ability to work under tight deadlines.
Benefits
- The position is located in San Francisco.
- Relocation assistance is available.
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.