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The role
OpenAI is hiring a Principal Software Engineer for its Infrastructure Security team, which protects GPU clusters, multi-cloud infrastructure and the services behind its models. You will lead core security services such as authentication, proxies and key management.
What you will do
- Own architecture and roadmap for core security services such as authN/Z, policy enforcement, secure proxies and key management
- Design large-scale security systems spanning hardware, operating systems, Kubernetes, networks and CI/CD
- Lead launches with infrastructure and research engineering teams
- Build security primitives such as identity, attestation, authorization and key lifecycle
- Use frontier models and agents to build detection and automation tooling
- Lead design reviews and threat models
What they ask for
- Strong software engineering with experience shipping and operating distributed systems in production
- Experience building or running critical security infrastructure at very large scale, such as auth, proxies or key management
- Deep understanding of security principles and common vulnerabilities
- Track record leading cross-team technical initiatives
- Experience securing large cloud platforms such as Azure, AWS or GCP
- Interest in using frontier models and agents to solve security problems
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