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The role
OpenAI is hiring a Security Engineer for its Infrastructure Security team, which protects GPU clusters, multi-cloud infrastructure, datacenters and the systems holding model weights and user data. The work is building security controls across hardware to CI/CD.
What you will do
- Design and build security controls across hardware, firmware, OS, Kubernetes, networks and CI/CD against sophisticated and insider threats.
- Work with engineering and security teams to roll out control changes across large-scale infrastructure.
- Tackle projects such as checkpoint encryption, network isolation, secret management and machine identity.
- Take a generalist approach to building controls as threats evolve.
What they ask for
- Deep understanding of security principles and common vulnerabilities.
- Track record of delivering scalable solutions and changes across infrastructure.
- Expertise securing cloud platforms such as AWS and Azure, including multi-cloud networks.
- Experience securing on-prem deployments and datacenters.
- Familiarity with container and orchestration security and authentication/authorization.
- Ability to automate fixes for security gaps, and to explain security concepts to non-technical people.
This is our own short reading of the posting. The full description, and anything that has changed since, is on OpenAI's careers page behind the apply button.

