Identity Infrastructure Engineer - Secure Access Proxies

OpenAI, Inc.; San Francisco (CA); On-site; USD 180,000 - 240,000; Full time

Job summary

OpenAI is seeking a hands-on software engineer for Identity Infrastructure Engineering to design and build high-scale, high-throughput secure access proxies and the distributed systems behind them. You will own services from design to production, focusing on scalable, auditable authorization and safe multi-region rollouts.

You will work at the intersection of networking, distributed systems, and infrastructure security, building serving paths and control-plane integrations that connect

Qualifications

• Experience designing and building production backend services with high scale.
• Strong grasp of HTTP, TCP, TLS, DNS, routing, and load balancing.

Responsibilities

• Design and implement secure access proxies, gateways, and credential brokers for infrastructure access.
• Integrate identity and access policy across clients, proxies, and targets to ensure timely permissions and expirations.

Skills

Go

Rust

Python

Distributed systems

Networking

Observability

Job description

OpenAI is seeking a hands-on software engineer for Identity Infrastructure Engineering to design and build high-scale, high-throughput secure access proxies and the distributed systems behind them. You will own services from design to production, focusing on scalable, auditable authorization and safe multi-region rollouts.

You will work at the intersection of networking, distributed systems, and infrastructure security, building serving paths and control-plane integrations that connect