OpenAI · 3 hours ago
Senior Software Engineer, Identity Platform
San Francisco, CA
Full-time
Onsite
Senior Level
$293K/yr - $405K/yr
7+ years expOpenAI is an AI research and deployment company dedicated to ensuring that general-purpose artificial intelligence benefits all of humanity. As a Senior Software Engineer on the Identity team, you will build and evolve the foundational identity platform that serves all OpenAI users across products, focusing on authentication, authorization, access control, and account management.
Agentic AIArtificial Intelligence (AI)Foundational AIGenerative AIMachine LearningNatural Language ProcessingSaaS
Responsibilities
Architect and build the next generation of Identity at OpenAI – including new use cases such as Agent identity and Sign In With ChatGPT
Design and build our identity infrastructure for consumer internet scale, while also solving scalability bottlenecks as they arise
Build powerful identity primitives, APIs, and internal tooling that enable product teams across OpenAI to integrate seamlessly with the account and access-control layer
Collaborate closely with a broad set of stakeholders, including product, design, go-to-market, and other engineers
Qualification
Required
7+ years of experience building and shipping production systems at product-driven technology companies, with a track record of owning meaningful technical scope
Care deeply about reliability, safety, and performance in production environments
Have experience or interest in Authentication, Authorization, Federation, and Identity Management
Naturally take ownership end-to-end, are comfortable navigating unfamiliar systems, and are eager to learn whatever's needed to solve hard problems well
Thrive in fast-moving environments, bringing structure to ambiguous problems, balancing competing priorities, and making sound tradeoffs as the company and platform evolve
Company
OpenAI
OpenAI is an AI research and deployment company that develops advanced AI models, including ChatGPT. It is a sub-organization of OpenAI Foundation.
201-500 employees
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Funding
Current Stage
Growth StageTotal Funding
$79BKey Investors
The Walt Disney CompanySoftBankThrive Capital
2025-12-11Corporate Round· $1B
2025-10-02Secondary Market· $6.6B
2025-03-31Series Unknown· $40B
Leadership Team
Fidji Simo
CEO, Applications
Sam Altman
CEO & Co-Founder
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