OpenAI · 1 day ago
Data Engineer, Security Products
San Francisco, CA
Full-time
Onsite
Senior Level, Lead/Staff
8+ years expOpenAI is an AI research and deployment company dedicated to ensuring that general-purpose artificial intelligence benefits all of humanity. As a Data Engineer on the Security Products team, you will design and build data pipelines and analytics to support the development of AI-powered cybersecurity products, collaborating closely with security experts and product engineers.
Agentic AIArtificial Intelligence (AI)Foundational AIGenerative AIMachine LearningNatural Language ProcessingSaaS
Responsibilities
Design, build and manage our data pipelines, ensuring all user event data is seamlessly integrated into our data warehouse
Develop canonical datasets to track key product insights including security outcomes, engagement and usage, and performance
Work directly with internal and external customers to deeply understand their workflows and translate them into intuitive, powerful product experiences
Work collaboratively with cross-functional partners, including Infrastructure, Data Science, Product, Marketing, Go-To-Market, and Research to solve problems and enable product success
Implement robust and fault-tolerant systems for data ingestion and processing
Participate in data architecture and engineering decisions, bringing your strong experience and knowledge to bear
Ensure the security, integrity, and compliance of data according to industry and company standards
Help shape the engineering culture, architecture, and processes of a new business unit with a critical mission
Qualification
Required
Have 3+ years of experience as a data engineer and 8+ years of any software engineering experience (including data engineering)
Proficiency in at least one programming language commonly used within Data Engineering, such as Python, Scala, or Java
Familiarity with public cloud environments (Azure or AWS) and infrastructure tooling (Kubernetes, Terraform, etc.)
Experience with distributed processing technologies and frameworks, such as Hadoop, Flink and distributed storage systems (e.g., HDFS, S3)
Expertise with any of ETL schedulers such as Airflow, Dagster, Prefect or similar frameworks
Solid understanding of Spark and ability to write, debug and optimize Spark code
Ability to thrive in a fast-paced environment where problems may be ambiguous, emerging, or rapidly evolving
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
Sam Altman
CEO & Co-Founder
Greg Brockman
President, Chairman, & Co-Founder
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