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Staff Security Reliability Engineer

OpenAI · San Francisco

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

Highlights

  • Build secure, reliable infrastructure for identity, access and endpoint services.
  • Replace bespoke setups with standardized building blocks that scale reliably.
  • Operate critical on-prem and hybrid environments powering R&D services.

What they offer

  • equity

Ideal candidate

Hands-on senior engineer with deep SRE instincts who thrives in ambiguity and owns complex systems end to end. You care about reliability, security by default, and replacing fragile one-offs with durable standards.

Requirements

  • 10+ years operating and architecting mission-critical infrastructure in high-reliability environments
  • Experience running security infrastructure
  • Senior technical ownership of complex on-prem, hybrid, or cloud-integrated systems
  • Apply SRE principles using observability, automation, and incident learnings to reduce toil
  • Comfortable operating in ambiguity and making sound architectural decisions under pressure
  • Experience with fleet, endpoint, or virtual desktop platforms
  • Experience partnering with identity or security engineering on hardened infrastructure

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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