# Software Engineer, Codex Cloud

**Company:** [OpenAI](https://hotfix.jobs/companies/openai)
**Location:** San Francisco, CA
**Role:** Fullstack Engineering
**Salary:** $230k – $325k/yr
**Skills:** Kubernetes, Python, Go, Rust, Distributed Systems, Container Orchestration, RBAC, Saml/Oidc, SCIM, Observability
**Posted:** 2026-01-21

> Builds cloud-based AI agentic experiences and runtime infrastructure for Codex, enabling scalable, secure AI software engineering across codebases. Requires strong distributed systems expertise, backend proficiency, and enterprise platform experience.

## Job Description

## In this role, you will:
- Shape the evolution of Codex by identifying usage patterns and driving changes across product, infrastructure, and model behavior.
- Design end-to-end software engineering experiences for consumer and enterprise to automate and empower engineers.
- Build core primitives for scale: container orchestration, VM provisioning, sandboxes, storage, RBAC, audit surfaces, rate limits, analytics.
- Design secure, observable full-stack systems integrating with enterprise identity (SSO/SAML/OIDC, SCIM) across web, IDEs, CLI, CI/CD.
- Lead deployments with customers and GTM, iterating on real-world feedback.

## You might thrive in this role if you:
- Have strong software engineering fundamentals and experience with production-grade large-scale distributed systems.
- Use AI-powered/agentic software development tools and know their strengths/weaknesses.
- Have experience with orchestration of scaled containerization/virtualization (e.g. **Kubernetes**, OCI).
- Are proficient in backend languages (**Python**, **Go**, **Rust**) and concurrency/distributed systems, focusing on reliability, observability, security.
- Enjoy building cross-cutting platform capabilities across services, APIs, and products.
- Have experience with enterprise foundations: identity/access (**SAML/OIDC**), **SCIM**, **RBAC**, audit/compliance, policy enforcement.
- Have built developer tools (**CLI/IDE/SDK**), automation, or integration platforms.
- Like working with users/customers and translating requirements into scalable implementations.
- Enjoy 0→1 environments and navigating ambiguity with product thinking.

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