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Software Engineer, Enterprise Controls

OpenAI · San Francisco

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Frontier labonsitesenior$230k–$385k
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At a glance

Highlights

  • Build permissions and governance powering ChatGPT, Codex, and OpenAI APIs.
  • Design sharing between people and agents with clear enterprise controls.
  • Ship reusable admin services that enable safe product launches at scale.

What they offer

  • Equity

Ideal candidate

Experienced backend leader with strong product judgment who loves turning ambiguous enterprise needs into reliable, secure governance systems and owning them in production.

Requirements

  • 9+ years professional backend software engineering experience building and operating production services
  • Track record shipping complex product or platform capabilities customers depend on
  • Experience providing technical leadership for substantial initiatives and coordinating delivery across teams while hands-on
  • Strong proficiency in a backend language such as Python, Go, Rust, Java, or C++
  • Experience designing distributed services, APIs, and data models with reliability and scalability tradeoffs
  • Experience building authorization, permissions, or enterprise governance systems
  • Strong product judgment and communication skills turning ambiguous needs into technical decisions
  • Track record owning production systems and improving security, testing, and observability

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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