Senior Staff Architect, Enterprise Identity & Security

OpenAI; Mountain View (CA); On-site; USD 345,000 - 405,000; Full time

Job summary

OpenAI is seeking a hands-on senior technical leader to own the architecture and evolution of the Enterprise Identity systems. You will set the long-term technical vision for the entire stack, establish shared identity primitives across products, and be accountable for systems foundational to our enterprise business.

This role is based in our San Francisco or Mountain View office and requires operating beyond a single service area to drive durable, scalable, and secure identity infrastructure

Qualifications

• Experience designing and evolving large-scale identity platforms.
• Strong background in distributed systems architecture and security.
• Ability to translate business needs into durable technical primitives.
• Proven leadership of multiple teams and alignment across product, infra, and security.

Responsibilities

• Own the architecture and long-term technical vision for OpenAI's Enterprise Identity stack (SSO, SCIM, tenant architecture, groups, permissions).
• Lead design of highly available, latency-sensitive identity systems serving global enterprise customers.
• Set common identity models across products to enable scale and consistency.
• Anticipate abuse cases and failure modes; uphold a high security bar for the platform.
• Provide technical leadership to senior engineers and raise architectural execution quality across teams.

Job description

OpenAI is seeking a hands-on senior technical leader to own the architecture and evolution of the Enterprise Identity systems. You will set the long-term technical vision for the entire stack, establish shared identity primitives across products, and be accountable for systems foundational to our enterprise business.

This role is based in our San Francisco or Mountain View office and requires operating beyond a single service area to drive durable, scalable, and secure identity infrastructure