Full Stack Software Engineer, Cybersecurity Products

OpenAI; San Francisco (CA); Hybrid; USD 230,000 - 325,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Equity offers

Relocation assistance

Job summary

OpenAI is hiring a Full Stack Software Engineer for Cybersecurity Products in San Francisco. In this role, you will develop systems and experiences that enable the effective use of AI in security applications. Your contribution will include building comprehensive workflows for vulnerability discovery and creating reliable services integral to security operations.

The ideal candidate has experience in full-stack development and a solid understanding of product trustworthiness. A hybrid work model is offered, with salaries ranging from $230K to $325K plus equity.

Qualifications

• Experience with modern web frontends and backend services.
• Ability to reason about reliability and performance problems.
• Strong judgment around privacy and security.

Responsibilities

• Build end-to-end workflows for vulnerability discovery and remediation.
• Design backend services for security work, including APIs and orchestration.
• Make security results actionable through clear product surfaces.
• Collaborate with product teams and researchers on quality evaluation.

Skills

Experience shipping production full-stack products

Designing clear APIs and data models

Understanding of asynchronous systems

Application-security or cybersecurity experience

Job description

Full Stack Software Engineer, Cybersecurity Products

The Cybersecurity Products team builds products at the frontier of AI and cybersecurity. Our work includes Codex Security and related cyber products that turn advances in model capability into dependable tools for defenders. We help teams find, validate, and remediate vulnerabilities, continuously improve the security of software, and test AI-powered applications before they reach production.

About the Role

As a Full Stack Software Engineer, you will build the product experiences and systems that make AI-powered security useful in real engineering environments. You will work across web surfaces, APIs, orchestration, data models, and integrations to help security and engineering teams move from a codebase or application to evidence-backed findings, prioritized remediation, and revalidation.

You will collaborate closely with product engineers, security researchers, and customer-facing teams. The work spans fast-moving product development and hard systems problems: long-running workflows, large repositories, sensitive data, reliability, observability, and a high bar for earning user trust.

This role is based in San Francisco, CA. We use a hybrid work model of 3 days in the office per week and offer relocation assistance to new employees.

In this role, you will:

• Build end-to-end workflows for vulnerability discovery, security scanning, red teaming, findings review, remediation, and reruns.
• Design and operate backend services for long-running security work, including APIs, asynchronous orchestration, durable state, and integrations with developer workflows.
• Make complex security results actionable through clear product surfaces, strong evidence, thoughtful prioritization, and reliable reporting.
• Partner with security researchers, product teams, and users to evaluate quality, reduce noise, improve coverage, and ship safely.

You might thrive in this role if you:

• Have experience shipping production full-stack products across modern web frontends and backend services.
• Can design clear APIs and data models, reason about asynchronous systems, and diagnose reliability or performance problems.
• Care about building products that experts trust while making sophisticated workflows usable for a broader set of engineers.
• Bring strong judgment around privacy, security, and correctness. Application-security or cybersecurity experience is helpful, but not required.

Compensation

$230K – $325K + Offers Equity

Equal Opportunity Employer

We are an equal opportunity employer, and we do not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, color, national origin, sex, sexual orientation, age, veteran status, disability, genetic information, or other applicable legally protected characteristic.

Background checks for applicants will be administered in accordance with applicable law, and qualified applicants with arrest or conviction records will be considered for employment consistent with those laws, including the San Francisco Fair Chance Ordinance, the Los Angeles County Fair Chance Ordinance for Employers, and the California Fair Chance Act, for US-based candidates.