Software Engineer, Cloud IAM
Software Engineer, Cloud IAM
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USD 255000 - 325000
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About the Team
Security is at the foundation of OpenAIs mission to ensure that artificial general intelligence benefits all of humanity. The Cloud IAM team sits at the core of this effort designing and building the identity and access management solutions that protect our model weights customer data and critical systems across multiple cloud environments. We partner with teams across OpenAIApplied Engineering Research IT and Securityto provide a secure and scalable platform for permissioning orchestration and innovative AI research.
About the Role
As a Software Engineer on the Cloud IAM team youll be instrumental in creating deploying and operating foundational security tools and infrastructure. You will work with a broad range of technologies to support multicloud deployments ensuring that researchers and engineers can safely build test and scale transformative AI systems. The role requires a balance of strong technical depth crossfunctional collaboration and a passion for embedding securebydefault principles into every layer of our stack.
We are looking for Software Engineers interested in coming to tackle challenges in these areas:
Identity & Access Orchestration: Build and maintain the systems and interfaces that manage user and service identity ensuring finegrained access controls are consistent across cloud providers and internal services.
MultiCloud Security: Design architectures and tooling that protect model weights custom data and sensitive assets while operating seamlessly in AWS Azure GCP or future cloud environments.
Automation & Tooling: Develop robust frameworks APIs and CLI tools that automate recurring security tasks (like provisioning or rotating credentials) freeing teams to focus on AI innovation without sacrificing security.
In this role you will:
Build new features for our IAM platform that seamlessly integrate with evolving cloud services enabling teams to work efficiently while adhering to security best practices.
Drive security innovation by designing tools processes and architectures that protect data at scale and reinforce a secure development culture across the organization.
Collaborate crossfunctionally with researchers engineers and compliance teams to address security requirements for multicloud deployments largescale model training and emerging AI use cases.
Implement and refine access policies that strike the right balance between enabling rapid experimentation and protecting highvalue assets including model weights and customer data.
Troubleshoot complex identity or access issues across distributed systems ensuring minimal downtime and a safe environment for AI research and product teams.
You might thrive in this role if you:
A background in building secure systemsfrom core IAM services to orchestration layers that manage credentials roles or policies at scale.
Proficiency in programming languages such as Python Go or similar with a track record of writing highquality maintainable code.
Experience with modern cloud infrastructure (AWS Azure GCP) and familiarity with industrystandard security protocols (OAuth SAML OpenID Connect) and authentication/authorization patterns.
A securityfocused mindset with knowledge of threat modeling risk assessment and the ability to embed security features throughout the software development lifecycle.
Excellent collaboration skillsyou work well across diverse technical and nontechnical teams turning broad objectives into actionable solutions.
This role is based in San Francisco CA. We use a hybrid work model of three days in the office per week and offer relocation assistance to new employees.
About OpenAI
OpenAI is an AI research and deployment company dedicated to ensuring that generalpurpose artificial intelligence benefits all of humanity. We push the boundaries of the capabilities of AI systems and seek to safely deploy them to the world through our products. AI is an extremely powerful tool that must be created with safety and human needs at its core and to achieve our mission we must encompass and value the many different perspectives voices and experiences that form the full spectrum of humanity.
We are an equal opportunity employer and do not discriminate on the basis of race religion national origin gender sexual orientation age veteran status disability or any other legally protected status.
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For US Based Candidates: Pursuant to the San Francisco Fair Chance Ordinance we will consider qualified applicants with arrest and conviction records.
We are committed to providing reasonable accommodations to applicants with disabilities and requests can be made via thislink.
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At OpenAI we believe artificial intelligence has the potential to help people solve immense global challenges and we want the upside of AI to be widely shared. Join us in shaping the future of technology.
Employment Type
Full-Time
