Software Engineer, Identity Infrastructure Engineering

About the Team

Security is at the foundation of OpenAI's mission to ensure that artificial general intelligence benefits all of humanity. The Identity Infrastructure Engineering team sits at the core of this effort, designing and building the identity and access management solutions that protect our model weights, customer data, and critical systems across multiple cloud environments. We partner with teams across OpenAI-Applied Engineering, Research, IT, and Security to provide a secure and scalable platform for permissioning, orchestration, and innovative AI research.

The role is preferred to be based in San Francisco, Seattle or New York City but may consider remote work. We use a hybrid work model of 3 days in the office per week and offer relocation assistance to new employees.

As a Software Engineer on the Identity Infrastructure Engineering team
, you'll be instrumental in creating, deploying, and operating foundational security tools and infrastructure. You will work with a broad range of technologies to support multi-cloud deployments, ensuring that researchers and engineers can safely build, test, and scale transformative AI systems. The role requires a balance of strong technical depth, cross-functional collaboration, and a passion for embedding secure-by-default principles into every layer of our stack.

We are looking for Software Engineers interested in coming to tackle challenges in these areas:

• Identity & Access Orchestration
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  Build and maintain the systems and interfaces that manage user and service identity, ensuring fine-grained access controls are consistent across cloud providers and internal services.
• Multi-Cloud Security
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  Design architectures and tooling that protect model weights, custom data, and sensitive assets while operating seamlessly in AWS, Azure, GCP, or future cloud environments.
• Automation & Tooling
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  Develop robust frameworks, APIs, and CLI tools that automate recurring security tasks (like provisioning or rotating credentials), freeing teams to focus on AI innovation without sacrificing security.

• A background in building secure systems—from core IAM services to orchestration layers that manage credentials, roles, or policies at scale.
• Proficiency in programming languages such as Python, Go, or similar, with a track record of writing high-quality, maintainable code.
• Experience with modern cloud infrastructure (AWS, Azure, GCP) and familiarity with industry-standard security protocols (OAuth, SAML, OpenID Connect) and authentication/authorization patterns.
• A security-focused mindset, with knowledge of threat modeling, risk assessment, and the ability to embed security features throughout the software development lifecycle.
• Excellent collaboration skills—you work well across diverse technical and non-technical teams, turning broad objectives into actionable solutions.

OpenAI is an AI research and deployment company dedicated to ensuring that general-purpose artificial intelligence benefits all of humanity. We push the boundaries of the capabilities of AI systems and seek to safely deploy them to the world through our products. AI is an extremely powerful tool that must be created with safety and human needs at its core, and to achieve our mission, we must encompass and value the many different perspectives, voices, and experiences that form the full spectrum of humanity.

We are an equal opportunity employer, and we do not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, color, national origin, sex, sexual orientation, age, veteran status, disability, genetic information, or other applicable legally protected characteristic.

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Compensation Range: $184K - $385K