Data Engineer, Security Products

About the Team

Security Products is on a mission to transform cybersecurity by leveraging AI to give defenders a decisive advantage.

Born out of OpenAIs security research program and incubated with Sam Altmans encouragement the Security Products team is taking the breakthroughs weve developed internally and bringing them to the world. Our tools are already protecting OpenAIs own systems and were looking to scale their impact to the world.

We are a lean high-caliber team operating at the frontier of AI and security. We blend security research with product engineering to explore whats possible build whats practical and give defenders an unprecedented advantage all while advancing the science of AI-driven security itself.

About the Role

As a Data Engineer on this team youll help invent and build the next generation of AI-powered cybersecurity products. Youll take the lead in building our data pipelines core tables and analytics to ensure our products are robust reliable and impactful.

This is a fast-moving high-ownership role. Youll collaborate closely with security experts AI researchers and product engineers shaping both the technical foundation and the product direction of a team that is scaling quickly. You dont need to be a security expert to succeed here just someone excited to solve meaningful problems and build tools that materially improve defenders capabilities.

What youll do:

• 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.

What were looking for:

• 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.

About OpenAI

OpenAI is an AI research and deployment company dedicated to ensuring that general-purpose 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.

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