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Senior Staff Software Engineer, Identity Infrastructure Engineering

About the TeamSecurity 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 th

Company

OpenAI

Location

San Francisco

Status

Open

Posted

2026-06-02T21:01:11.222+00:00

OpenAI is hiring a senior staff engineer for its Identity Infrastructure Engineering team in San Francisco, with three days a week in the office. The role covers architecting and running identity and access systems across cloud environments — authentication, authorization, access governance, auditability and policy enforcement — plus platform work used by engineering, research and security. The posting asks for 10+ years on large-scale infrastructure or backend systems, distributed systems and infrastructure-as-code experience, and production code in Go, Rust or Python.