# Senior Staff Software Engineer, Identity

**Company:** [OpenAI](https://hotfix.jobs/companies/openai)
**Location:** San Francisco, CA, Mountain View, CA
**Role:** Security Engineering
**Salary:** $345k – $405k/yr
**Experience:** 7+ years
**Skills:** SSO, SCIM, identity providers, tenant architecture, permissions, groups, Distributed Systems, security architecture, enterprise architecture, System Design, high availability, latency optimization
**Posted:** 2026-08-06

> Leads the architecture and evolution of enterprise identity systems, including SSO, SCIM, tenant models, permissions, and shared identity primitives across products. Requires senior-staff experience guiding large-scale distributed platforms, setting multi-year technical direction, and aligning multiple teams on secure, reliable solutions.

## Job Description

## Responsibilities
- Own the technical vision and architecture for the Enterprise Identity stack, including SSO, SCIM, tenant architecture, groups, permissions, and identity capabilities in enterprise administration surfaces.
- Lead the design and evolution of highly available, latency-sensitive identity systems serving a large and diverse global enterprise customer base.
- Establish common identity models and primitives that work consistently across products and enable the organization to scale.
- Set a high security bar by anticipating abuse cases, failure modes, and the long-term implications of new capabilities.
- Drive alignment across enterprise product, infrastructure, and security partners, resolving ambiguity and influencing roadmaps beyond the immediate team.
- Provide technical leadership to senior engineers and raise the quality of architecture and execution across the broader organization.

## Requirements
- Experience owning the architecture of a broad, business-critical platform or large-scale distributed-systems domain at the senior-staff level.
- Experience setting multi-year technical direction and aligning multiple teams around complex architectural decisions.
- Understanding of enterprise identity, enterprise architecture, and the operational needs of large customers in multi-product environments.
- Experience with SSO, SCIM, identity providers, tenant models, permissions, groups, or adjacent identity infrastructure.
- A security-minded, adversarial approach to systems design, including consideration of how capabilities could fail or be abused.
- Ability to move between deep technical judgment, organizational influence, and hands-on leadership.

## Compensation
- Annual salary range: $345,000–$405,000.

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