Identity Infrastructure Engineer: Secure Access Proxies

OpenAI, Inc.; United States; On-site; USD 180,000 - 240,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

No specified perks

Job summary

OpenAI, Inc. is seeking a hands-on software engineer to design and build high-scale, high-throughput secure access proxies and the distributed systems behind them.

You will work at the intersection of networking, distributed systems, and infrastructure security, building serving paths and control-plane integrations that connect identities to resources. Teleport is a core part of the platform; role includes credential brokers and policy enforcement.

Qualifications

• Experience building/operating production backend, proxy, networking, or infrastructure services at scale.
• Strong understanding of HTTP, TCP, TLS, DNS, routing, and load balancing across real request paths.
• Ability to reason about performance bottlenecks, multi-region deployment, and production changes in systems you built.

Responsibilities

• Design and implement secure access proxies, gateways, and credential brokers for auditable access to infrastructure and internal services.
• Integrate identity and access policy across clients, proxies, and targets to ensure timely rights and expiring sessions.
• Build end-to-end observability for latency, errors, saturation, authorization decisions, and identity attribution without leaking credentials.
• Enable safe multi-region rollouts, canaries, rollback, failover, and recovery with realistic test environments and failure testing.
• Own production support, maintenance upgrades, incident recovery, and ship durable fixes reducing recurring failures and alert noise.
• Lead migrations that preserve critical workflows with tested rollback and clear ownership across Infrastructure, Security, and SRE.

Skills

Go

Rust

Python

Networking depth

Production ownership

Job description

OpenAI, Inc. is seeking a hands-on software engineer to design and build high-scale, high-throughput secure access proxies and the distributed systems behind them.

You will work at the intersection of networking, distributed systems, and infrastructure security, building serving paths and control-plane integrations that connect identities to resources. Teleport is a core part of the platform; role includes credential brokers and policy enforcement.