Senior Staff Software Engineer, Identity

Highlights

• Own the architecture and vision for OpenAI's Enterprise Identity platform.
• Build identity foundation enabling secure enterprise adoption at global scale.
• Establish shared identity primitives across OpenAI's multi-product portfolio.

What they offer

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Ideal candidate

A senior-staff level technical leader who thrives owning business-critical platforms and setting multi-year vision. Security-minded and collaborative, you align teams and care about highly available, enterprise-grade systems.

Requirements

• Owned the architecture of a broad, business-critical platform or large-scale distributed-systems domain at senior-staff level
• Set multi-year technical direction and aligned multiple teams around complex architectural decisions
• Understand enterprise identity, enterprise architecture, and operational needs of large customers
• Experience with SSO, SCIM, identity providers, tenant models, permissions, groups, or adjacent identity infrastructure
• Security-minded, adversarial approach to systems design with focus on failure modes and abuse cases
• Can move between deep technical judgment, organizational influence, and hands-on leadership