Software Engineer, Identity Infrastructure

OpenAI

. Design and implement secure access proxies, gateways, and credential brokers .

Posted 10/22/2026full-timeUnited StatesMid-LevelSenior💰 $230,000 - $325,000 per yearWebsite

Core Competencies

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Core Competencies

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Demonstrates expertise in designing and implementing secure access systems, integrating identity and access policies, and maintaining reliable core access services. Proficient in backend services, networking protocols, and performance optimization in production environments.

Highest-signal resume keywords

Production Backend Services ExperiencePractical Networking KnowledgeExperience With Go, Rust, PythonUnderstanding Of Authentication And AuthorizationExperience With Telemetry And Performance Debugging

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Hard Skills

Secure Access ProxiesIdentity And Access Policy IntegrationPerformance Bottleneck HandlingMulti-Region DeploymentSoftware Engineering FundamentalsLoad BalancingCredential HandlingAPI DevelopmentTesting And ValidationIncident Recovery

Soft Skills

Clear CommunicationPractical Scope Decision Making

Tools & Technologies

TeleportTelemetry ToolsLoad Testing ToolsClient Tooling

Industry Keywords

Access-Control RisksTrust BoundariesProduction SupportInfrastructure CoordinationSRE Practices

Tech Stack

Tools & technologies

DNSPythonRustGo

About the role

Key responsibilities & impact

Design and implement secure access proxies, gateways, and credential brokers
Integrate identity and access policy across clients, proxies, and target systems
Ensure permissions take effect promptly and access expires or is revoked when required
Build observability for latency, errors, saturation, authorization decisions, and identity attribution without leaking credentials
Engineer multi-region rollouts, canaries, rollback, failover, and recovery
Validate changes with realistic test environments, load tests, and failure testing
Maintain reliable, performant, and maintainable core access services
Own production support, maintenance, upgrades, and incident recovery
Ship durable fixes that reduce recurring failures, alert noise, and manual work
Develop reusable APIs, client tooling, diagnostics, and self-service workflows
Lead migrations with tested rollback and recovery paths
Coordinate ownership across Infrastructure, Security, and SRE
Build identity and access systems used by OpenAI researchers, engineers, agents, and internal teams

Requirements

What you’ll need

Production backend, proxy, networking, or infrastructure services experience with demanding scale or availability requirements
Practical networking knowledge, including HTTP, TCP, TLS, DNS, routing, and load balancing
Experience handling performance bottlenecks, partial failures, multi-region deployment, or difficult production changes
Understanding of authentication, authorization, least privilege, trust boundaries, credential handling, and access-control risks
Strong software engineering fundamentals
Experience with Go, Rust, Python, or similar languages
Experience using tests, profiling, telemetry, and reproducible experiments to debug and verify correctness, performance, and recovery
Ability to make practical scope decisions, communicate tradeoffs clearly, and follow through from code to production
Teleport or comparable access-platform experience is helpful
Ability to work from the San Francisco office three days per week

Benefits

Comp & perks

Equity
Performance-related bonus(es) for eligible employees
Medical, dental, and vision insurance for you and your family, with employer contributions to Health Savings Accounts
Pre-tax accounts for Health FSA, Dependent Care FSA, and commuter expenses (parking and transit)
401(k) retirement plan with employer match
Paid parental leave (up to 24 weeks for birth parents and 20 weeks for non-birthing parents)
Paid medical and caregiver leave (up to 8 weeks)
Flexible PTO for exempt employees and up to 15 days annually for non-exempt employees
13+ paid company holidays
Multiple paid coordinated company office closures throughout the year
Paid sick or safe time
Mental health and wellness support
Employer-paid basic life and disability coverage
Annual learning and development stipend
Daily meals in offices and meal delivery credits as eligible
Relocation support for eligible employees
Charitable donation matching and wellness stipends may be provided