Senior Staff Software Engineer, Identity

OpenAI
San Francisco, Mountain View
Workplace: HybridFull timeUSD 345,000 - 405,000 annuallyFunction: Software EngineeringSkills: ["Security-minded","Adversarial thinking","Technical leadership","Organizational influence","Hands-on leadership"]

Own the architecture and evolution of OpenAI’s Enterprise Identity systems, setting the long-term technical vision for the enterprise identity stack. Design and scale highly available, latency-sensitive identity capabilities such as SSO, SCIM, tenant architecture, groups, and permissions. Establish shared identity primitives across products, anticipate abuse and failure modes, and lead alignment across enterprise product, infrastructure, and security partners while providing technical leadership to senior engineers.

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Senior Staff Software Engineer, Identity

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Job Summary

Own the architecture and evolution of OpenAI’s Enterprise Identity systems, setting the long-term technical vision for the enterprise identity stack. Design and scale highly available, latency-sensitive identity capabilities such as SSO, SCIM, tenant architecture, groups, and permissions. Establish shared identity primitives across products, anticipate abuse and failure modes, and lead alignment across enterprise product, infrastructure, and security partners while providing technical leadership to senior engineers.
Location: San Francisco, Mountain View
Workplace: Hybrid
Employment Type: Full time
Job Function: Software Engineering
Seniority: Mid level

Key Responsibilities

  • •Own the technical vision and architecture for the Enterprise Identity stack, including SSO, SCIM, tenant architecture, groups, permissions, and identity capabilities in enterprise admin surfaces.
  • •Lead the design and evolution of highly available, latency-sensitive identity systems for a large global enterprise customer base.
  • •Establish common identity models and primitives that work consistently across OpenAI’s products.
  • •Set a high security bar by anticipating abuse cases, failure modes, and long-term implications of new capabilities.
  • •Drive alignment across enterprise product, infrastructure, and security partners, providing technical leadership to senior engineers.

Pay and Benefits

Salary: USD 345,000 - 405,000 annually
Equity and Bonus:Equity

Key Requirements

  • •Have owned the architecture of a broad, business-critical platform or large-scale distributed-systems domain at the senior-staff level.
  • •Set multi-year technical direction and aligned multiple teams around complex architectural decisions.
  • •Understand enterprise identity/enterprise architecture and operational needs of large customers in multi-product environments.
  • •Have experience with SSO, SCIM, identity providers, tenant models, permissions, groups, or adjacent identity infrastructure.
  • •Use a security-minded, adversarial approach to systems design, anticipating how capabilities could fail or be abused.
Experience:Enterprise identityDistributed systemsMulti-product environments
Skills:Security-mindedAdversarial thinkingTechnical leadershipOrganizational influenceHands-on leadership
Tech Stack:SSOSCIMIdentity providersTenant architecturePermissionsGroups

Company Brief

OpenAI
Develops and deploys advanced generative AI models (including ChatGPT and DALL·E) and AI infrastructure, providing APIs and consumer products to accelerate safe AGI for broad benefit.
Industry: AI & Machine Learning
Company Size: Enterprise (1,001+ employees)
Revenue: USD 1B+
Growth: Scaleup
Valuation: Hectocorn (USD 100B+)
Funding: Series E+
Headquarters: San Francisco, United States
Founded: 2015
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