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Software Engineer, Identity Infrastructure Engineering

184k – 385kSan Francisco, CASeattle, WANew York, NYHybrid
Summary

Builds identity and access management infrastructure for multi-cloud security at OpenAI, protecting AI model weights and data. Requires strong Python/Go skills, cloud expertise (AWS/Azure/GCP), and security protocols like OAuth/SAML.

About the role

About the Role

As a Software Engineer on the Identity Infrastructure Engineering team, you'll create, deploy, and operate foundational security tools and infrastructure supporting multi-cloud deployments. The role balances technical depth, cross-functional collaboration, and secure-by-default principles.

Key Challenges:

  • Identity & Access Orchestration: Build systems managing user/service identity and fine-grained access controls across clouds.
  • Multi-Cloud Security: Design architectures protecting model weights, data, and assets in AWS, Azure, GCP.
  • Automation & Tooling: Develop frameworks, APIs, CLI tools for security tasks like credential provisioning.

In this role, you will:

  • Build IAM platform features integrating with cloud services.
  • Drive security innovation through tools, processes, and architectures.
  • Collaborate with researchers, engineers, and compliance teams.
  • Implement access policies balancing experimentation and protection.
  • Troubleshoot identity/access issues in distributed systems.

You might thrive if you:

  • Have background in secure systems and IAM orchestration.
  • Proficient in Python, Go with high-quality code.
  • Experienced with AWS, Azure, GCP, OAuth, SAML, OpenID Connect.
  • Security mindset with threat modeling and SDLC knowledge.
  • Strong collaboration skills.
Skills
PythonGoAWSAzureGoogle CloudOAuthSAMLOpenID ConnectIAMKubernetes
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