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Software Engineer, Codex -Enterprise Controls

Build and operate the enterprise control plane for OpenAI's Codex AI software engineer, focusing on security, governance, identity, access controls, encryption, and policy enforcement systems for large organizations.

230k – 385k
Hybrid5+ YOEBackend Engineering

About the role

Responsibilities

  • Build backend systems that protect enterprise customer data, including encryption, key management, access controls, data isolation, retention controls, and secure data handling patterns.
  • Design and operate the Codex enterprise control plane, enabling administrators to configure, enforce, and audit how Codex is used across users, teams, projects, and environments.
  • Build policy and governance systems that allow enterprises to enable or disable specific Codex capabilities, define organizational constraints, and safely roll out new AI-powered workflows.
  • Develop reliable, observable, and scalable services across identity, authorization, configuration, audit logging, compliance, and enterprise administration.
  • Partner closely with product, security, infrastructure, GTM, and customer-facing teams to translate complex enterprise requirements into simple, durable product and platform capabilities.
  • Own systems end-to-end: from architecture and implementation to production operations, with a strong bias for security, reliability, quality, and velocity.

Requirements

  • Strong backend software engineering fundamentals and experience building production-grade distributed systems.
  • Proficient in one or more backend languages such as Python, Go, Rust, Java, or C++.
  • Experience with security, identity, authorization, encryption, key management, policy systems, or enterprise governance.
  • Understand enterprise foundations such as SSO/SAML/OIDC, SCIM, RBAC, audit logging, compliance controls, and data governance.
  • Comfortable working across ambiguous technical and product requirements, especially in fast-moving 0 → 1 environments.
  • Care deeply about reliability, security, observability, and customer trust.

Nice-to-Haves

  • Enjoy building foundational platform capabilities that unlock many product surfaces and customer workflows.

Skills

PythonGoRustJavaC++SSOSAMLOIDCSCIMRBACEncryptionKey ManagementAudit LoggingDistributed Systems
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