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Security Engineer, Detection and Response

OpenAI· Security
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San Francisco, New York City, Seattle, US - Remote$293k - $385kFull-timePosted 11mo ago

About the role

Security Engineer role focused on building and operating detection and response capabilities across OpenAI’s infrastructure, products, and research environments, with emphasis on high-signal detection, automation, and cross-team collaboration to protect sensitive assets.

Responsibilities

  • Build and evolve Detection & Response capabilities across OpenAI’s infrastructure, products, and research environments, with an emphasis on high-signal detection and reliable operational response.
  • Engineer detection pipelines and tooling: develop rule lifecycle management, measurement/quality loops (coverage, precision, latency), tuning processes, and safe rollout patterns.
  • Automate response and investigations by building workflows that reduce toil (triage, enrichment, containment, evidence capture) and improve time-to-understand/time-to-contain.
  • Partner with other Security teams and system/infrastructure owners across the company to ensure new systems ship with the right telemetry, threat models, and response playbooks from day one.
  • Define D&R requirements and drive visibility across endpoints, identity, SaaS, cloud, Kubernetes: identify telemetry/control gaps, prioritize them, and advocate for fixes with partner teams (and implement directly when it’s the fastest/most effective path).
  • Evaluate and respond to emergent security concerns in a frontier AI lab environment, such as detection and response strategies for agents operating across infrastructure at scale.

Qualifications

  • Hands-on threat detection and/or incident response experience, including building detections, running investigations, and improving operational playbooks.
  • Understanding of modern adversary tradecraft (TTPs) and ability to translate into practical detection strategies and response actions.
  • Threat modeling mindset to evaluate new infrastructure or features and derive concrete requirements for shipping systems.
  • Experience in Kubernetes/containerized environments, including building detections from cluster telemetry and understanding workloads, nodes, control plane, networking.
  • Comfort reasoning about lower-level infrastructure and datacenter risks (firmware/BMC, network segmentation/telemetry, hard-to-observe control paths).
  • Experience across major cloud platforms (Azure, AWS, GCP, OCI) and ability to design cloud-agnostic detection approaches.
  • Ability to build automation to reduce repetitive D&R work, using agent-style workflows where appropriate, with measurable, auditable, safe outcomes.
  • Strong communication and collaboration skills to translate D&R needs into requirements and drive follow-through across technical and non-technical audiences.
  • Comfort with scripting and using AI/agent tooling to accelerate investigations and automation.

Skills

Required:Threat detectionIncident responseThreat modelingKubernetesCloud platformsAutomation/scripting

Benefits

  • Medical, dental, and vision insurance for you and your family, with employer contributions to Health Savings Accounts
  • Pre-tax accounts for Health FSA, Dependent Care FSA, and commuter expenses (parking and transit)
  • 401(k) retirement plan with employer match
  • Paid parental leave (up to 24 weeks for birth parents and 20 weeks for non-birthing parents), plus paid medical and caregiver leave (up to 8 weeks)
  • Paid time off: flexible PTO for exempt employees and up to 15 days annually for non-exempt employees
  • 13+ paid company holidays, and multiple paid coordinated company office closures throughout the year for focus and recharge, plus paid sick or safe time
  • Mental health and wellness support
  • Employer-paid basic life and disability coverage
  • Annual learning and development stipend
  • Daily meals in offices, and meal delivery credits as eligible
  • Relocation support for eligible employees
  • Additional taxable fringe benefits (e.g., charitable donation matching and wellness stipends)
Last updated Sep 3, 2026. Interested? Apply on the company site.

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