Software Engineer, Identity Infrastructure

The role

This person will design and build high-scale secure access proxies and distributed systems. They will work at the intersection of networking, distributed systems, and infrastructure security to connect identities to resources.

What you will do

• Design and implement secure access proxies, gateways, and credential brokers.
• Integrate identity and access policy across clients, proxies, and target systems.
• Build observability for the end-to-end access path.
• Engineer safe multi-region rollouts, canaries, rollback, failover, and recovery.
• Keep core access services reliable, performant, and maintainable.
• Own production support, maintenance, upgrades, and incident recovery.
• Make secure access easy to adopt through reusable APIs, client tooling, and self-service workflows.
• Lead migrations that preserve critical workflows.

Required qualifications

• Built and operated production backend, proxy, networking, or infrastructure services with demanding scale or availability requirements.
• Practical networking depth in HTTP, TCP, TLS, DNS, routing, and load balancing.
• Experience handling performance bottlenecks, partial failures, multi-region deployment, or difficult production changes.
• Understanding of authentication, authorization, least privilege, trust boundaries, and credential handling.
• Strong software engineering fundamentals.
• Experience with Go, Rust, Python, or similar languages.
• Use of tests, profiling, telemetry, and reproducible experiments to debug and verify correctness.

Nice to have

• Teleport or comparable access-platform experience

Before you apply

• Background checks for applicants will be administered in accordance with applicable law.

About the company

OpenAI is an AI research and deployment company dedicated to ensuring that general-purpose artificial intelligence benefits all of humanity.