OpenAI · 4 hours ago
Senior Software Engineer, Identity Platform
United States
Full-time
Remote
Senior Level
$325K/yr - $490K/yrOpenAI is an AI research and deployment company dedicated to ensuring that general-purpose artificial intelligence benefits all of humanity. They are seeking a Senior Software Engineer to build the foundational platform for identity across all OpenAI products, focusing on authentication, authorization, and access control systems. The role involves collaborating with various stakeholders and empowering other engineers to integrate authentication into their products.
Agentic AIArtificial Intelligence (AI)Foundational AIGenerative AIMachine LearningNatural Language ProcessingSaaS
Responsibilities
Architect and build the next generation of authentication and authorization at OpenAI – including integration with our ambitious future product roadmap
Work across the stack to build end-to-end authentication products for our wide variety of ChatGPT and API users
Design our identity platform for consumer internet scale, while also solving scalability bottlenecks as they arise
Build tools and primitives to empower other engineers at OpenAI to more easily build authentication into their products
Collaborate closely with a broad set of stakeholders, including product, design, go-to-market, and other engineers
Qualification
Required
Architect and build the next generation of authentication and authorization at OpenAI
Work across the stack to build end-to-end authentication products for our wide variety of ChatGPT and API users
Design our identity platform for consumer internet scale, while also solving scalability bottlenecks as they arise
Build tools and primitives to empower other engineers at OpenAI to more easily build authentication into their products
Collaborate closely with a broad set of stakeholders, including product, design, go-to-market, and other engineers
Own problems end-to-end, and are willing to pick up whatever knowledge you're missing to get the job done
Preferred
Experience or interest in Authentication, Authorization, Federation, and Identity Management
Interest or experience with protocols such as OAuth 2.0, SAML, SCIM, and OpenID Connect
Industry experience with projects such as Hydra or Auth0
Experience with languages such as Python or Golang
Ability to move fast in an environment where things are sometimes loosely defined and may have competing priorities or deadlines
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.
Founded in 2015
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
Sam Altman
CEO & Co-Founder
Greg Brockman
President, Chairman, & Co-Founder
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