Software Engineer, Enterprise Controls

The role

You will design and build backend services for permissions, authorization, and governance across OpenAI products. You will lead technical design and delivery for enterprise access, governance, and sharing systems.

What you will do

• Design and build backend services for permissions, authorization, and governance across ChatGPT, Codex, and OpenAI APIs.
• Develop sharing capabilities between people and agents.
• Build reusable services and APIs that support workspace administration and console experiences.
• Lead architecture and delivery for complex initiatives.
• Translate enterprise needs into clear configuration and predictable permission behavior.
• Own the reliability, security, and performance of the services you ship.

Required qualifications

• 9+ years of professional backend software engineering experience, excluding internships, building and operating production services.
• Deep backend engineering expertise and a track record of shipping complex product or platform capabilities.
• Experience providing technical leadership for substantial initiatives and making architectural decisions.
• Strong proficiency in a backend language such as Python, Go, Rust, Java, or C++.
• Experience designing distributed services, APIs, and data models.
• Experience building authorization, permissions, or enterprise governance systems.
• Strong product judgment and communication skills.
• A track record of owning production systems and diagnosing difficult failures.

About the company

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