Software Engineer, Identity Infrastructure
OpenAI · San Francisco · New York City · Seattle
Frontier labremote$230k–$325k
At a glance
Highlights
- Build tier-zero secure access proxies researchers and agents rely on daily.
- Design credential brokers and policy enforcement for critical infrastructure.
- Own services end-to-end from design through production and recovery.
What they offer
- Equity
Ideal candidate
Hands-on infrastructure engineer who thrives on high-scale, high-reliability systems and turning demanding security requirements into simple, auditable access developers love to use.
Requirements
- Built and operated production backend, proxy, networking, or infrastructure services at demanding scale
- Practical networking depth across HTTP, TCP, TLS, DNS, routing and load balancing
- Handled performance bottlenecks, partial failures and multi-region deployment in production
- Understand authentication, authorization, least privilege, trust boundaries and credential handling
- Strong software engineering fundamentals with Go, Rust, Python or similar languages
- Use tests, profiling, telemetry and reproducible experiments to debug across system boundaries
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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