Product Engineer, Cyber

OpenAI; United States; Remote; USD 150,000 - 190,000; Full time

Job summary

OpenAI's Defense Factory team is hiring backend-focused Product Engineers to design and build infrastructure and customer-facing workflows that empower developers and AI agents to operate reliably in secure, customer-controlled cloud environments.

You'll mainly work in Go on APIs, orchestration for long-running tasks, durable state, retries, and recovery, collaborating with frontend, infra, and security engineers to ship robust solutions that address complex security challenges.

Qualifications

• Backend-focused role building infrastructure and customer workflows.
• Go-based services and APIs for provisioning and orchestration.
• Collaborate across frontend, infrastructure, and security teams.

Responsibilities

• Work with customers to build developer and security workflows from project setup to verification of fixes.
• Build Go services and APIs for provisioning cloud environments and agent execution in customer infrastructure.
• Design reliable orchestration for long-running, parallel work with durable state, retries, cancellation, and recovery.

Skills

Go programming

APIs design

Distributed systems

Customer collaboration

Tools

CI/CD pipelines

Source control

Job description

About the Team

We are building the Defense Factory to help enterprises find and fix security vulnerabilities with AI. We build infrastructure that enables AI agents to work in secure, customer-controlled cloud environments, with the context, tools, and controls they need to investigate security findings, carry out approved actions, and verify results. Our focus is turning AI capabilities into reliable security outcomes, starting with finding and fixing vulnerabilities and expanding into investigation, detection, and response. That means solving challenging problems in cloud environments, orchestration, security, and collaboration, while making the experience straightforward for the people directing and reviewing the work. We’re a team that values initiative, close relationships with customers, and exceptional engineering craft. We take ownership, learn quickly, and communicate directly and kindly.

About the Role

We’re hiring backend-focused Product Engineers across our platform and security product teams. You’ll build infrastructure and customer-facing workflows that let developers and AI agents work reliably in parallel. You’ll work primarily in Go on APIs, complex networking, development environments, and orchestration for long-running tasks. You’ll own outcomes from understanding a user’s problem and choosing an approach through shipping, operating, and improving the solution, working closely with frontend, infrastructure, and security engineers.

• Work directly with customers to build developer and security workflows, from getting a project running to investigating findings, reviewing agent-generated changes, and verifying fixes.
• Build Go services and APIs for provisioning cloud environments, running agents in customer infrastructure, and integrating with source control, CI, and other developer tools.
• Design reliable orchestration for long-running, parallel work, including durable state, retries, cancellation, and recovery.
• Build security i