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The role
OpenAI is hiring a Security Software Engineer for its Infrastructure Security team to build foundational security services such as authentication systems, secure proxies, access brokers and key management for its supercomputing environment.
What you will do
- Build production security services such as auth services, access brokers, secure proxies and key-management infrastructure.
- Work with infrastructure and research engineers to build security into high-performance compute clusters.
- Develop automation and detection tooling to find and reduce risk in cloud and on-prem environments.
- Drive initiatives such as line-speed encryption, machine identity and network isolation.
- Lead or join design reviews and threat models for new systems.
What they ask for
- Strong software engineering in Python, Go, Rust or C/C++, with experience shipping and operating reliable distributed services.
- Experience building or running critical security infrastructure such as auth services, proxies or key-management systems.
- Deep understanding of security principles and common vulnerabilities.
- Expertise securing large cloud platforms (Azure, AWS, GCP) and multi-cloud networks.
- Familiarity with Kubernetes, service meshes and OIDC, mTLS, SPIFFE/SPIRE.
- Clear communication with technical and non-technical stakeholders.
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