Senior Staff Software Engineer, Identity Infrastructure Engineering
OpenAI · San Francisco
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Frontier labremotestaff$347k–$510k
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