Infrastructure Security Engineer - Cloud & Kubernetes

OpenAI; United States; On-site; USD 230,000 - 385,000; Full time

Job summary

OpenAI is seeking a Security Engineer to join our InfraSec team. This role focuses on protecting OpenAI’s infrastructure across GPU clusters, multi-cloud environments, datacenters, networking, and data pathways for model weights and user data.

You will design security controls across physical to cloud layers, collaborate with cross-functional teams, and drive high-impact projects like encryption and secret management to enhance security for frontier AI workloads.

Qualifications

• Design and implement security controls across hardware, firmware, OS, Kubernetes, networks, and CI/CD to deter attackers.
• Collaborate with engineers to deploy security enhancements and enforce control changes at scale.
• Lead initiatives like checkpoint encryption, network isolation, secret management, and machine identity.

Responsibilities

• Design and build security controls across diverse layers to defend against adversaries and insider threats.
• Collaborate with engineering and security teams to deploy security enhancements and control changes.
• Tackle high-impact projects such as checkpoint encryption, network isolation, secret management, and machine identity, while raising security standards.

Skills

Security engineering

Infrastructure security

Automation

Cloud security

Kubernetes security

Tools

AWS

Azure

Kubernetes

CI/CD

Job description

OpenAI is seeking a Security Engineer to join our InfraSec team. This role focuses on protecting OpenAI’s infrastructure across GPU clusters, multi-cloud environments, datacenters, networking, and data pathways for model weights and user data.

You will design security controls across physical to cloud layers, collaborate with cross-functional teams, and drive high-impact projects like encryption and secret management to enhance security for frontier AI workloads.