Staff+ Software Engineer, Identity Infrastructure Engineering

Staff+ Software Engineer role at OpenAI, focusing on building and evolving the identity infrastructure for research, engineering, and internal platforms. The ideal candidate has experience in cloud infrastructure, identity systems, distributed systems, and infrastructure-as-code, with a strong focus on reliability, scalability, and security.

Requirements

• 10+ years building and operating large-scale infrastructure, platform, or backend systems
• Deep experience with cloud infrastructure, identity systems, distributed systems, and infrastructure-as-code
• Experience leading complex technical initiatives across teams and driving architecture in ambiguous environments
• Experience building security-critical systems involving authentication, authorization, access governance, privileged access, or policy enforcement
• Strong software engineering fundamentals with experience in Go, Rust, Python, or similar languages
• Ability to debug across code, cloud infrastructure, identity systems, networking, and operations

Benefits

• Relocation assistance
• Generous Paid Time Off
• 401k Matching