🛠 Tech Stack

💼 About This Role

You'll lead the architecture and development of identity infrastructure that protects OpenAI's model weights, customer data, and critical systems. Your work will directly impact the security and scalability of platforms supporting groundbreaking AI research. This role offers the opportunity to shape foundational systems at the most influential AI company.

🎯 What You'll Do

• Lead architecture and operation of identity infrastructure across cloud platforms and internal systems.
• Design authentication, authorization, access governance, and policy enforcement systems.
• Build foundational platform capabilities used broadly across engineering and security teams.
• Drive ambiguous high-impact technical initiatives across multiple teams.

📋 Requirements

• 10+ years building large-scale infrastructure, platform, or backend systems.
• Deep cloud infrastructure and distributed systems experience.
• Experience with identity systems and infrastructure-as-code.
• Strong skills in Go, Rust, or Python.

✨ Nice to Have

• Experience building security-critical systems for authentication or authorization.
• Ability to debug across code, cloud, identity, networking, and operations.

🎁 Benefits & Perks

• 💰 Competitive salary ($293K-$385K) plus equity.
• 🏠 Hybrid work (3 days/week in San Francisco office).
• 🌀 Relocation assistance available.

📨 Hiring Process

Estimated timeline: 2-4 weeks · AI estimate

1. 1Recruiter Screen· 30 min
2. 2Technical Interview· 60 min
3. 3Onsite (4-5 rounds)· 4-5 hours