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Senior Staff Software Engineer, Identity Infrastructure Engineering

OpenAI · San Francisco

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Frontier labremotestaff$347k–$510k
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At a glance

Highlights

  • Build identity infrastructure protecting model weights and customer data.
  • Design auth, access governance and policy enforcement at scale.
  • Lead 0-to-1 platform capabilities for AI research and engineering.

What they offer

  • Equity
  • Relocation assistance

Ideal candidate

Seasoned infrastructure builder with 10+ years owning mission-critical systems who thrives in ambiguity and cares deeply about reliability, security, and enabling rapid research with strong guardrails.

Requirements

  • 10+ years 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
  • High bar for reliability, security, auditability, and operational rigor in mission-critical systems
remote policy
3 days in office per week

Lab profile

About OpenAI

Builds safe frontier AI models and products like ChatGPT for broad benefit.

What they build

  • ChatGPT
  • OpenAI API
  • Frontier AI models

Known for

  • Frontier-scale distributed ML training
  • Massive GPU fleet and data center operations
  • Exabyte-scale data lakes and streaming
  • AI alignment and safety research

Key facts

  • Operates one of the world's largest GPU fleets
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