Software Engineer, Enterprise Controls
OpenAI · San Francisco
CHECKED 1H AGO
Frontier labonsitesenior$230k–$385k
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