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Staff Security Reliability Engineer

OpenAI· Security
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Hybrid (San Francisco)$347k - $510kFull-timePosted 4mo ago

About the role

Senior Site Reliability Engineer focused on security infrastructure to design, build, and operate reliable, secure, and scalable infrastructure for identity, access, endpoint, and shared platform services across OpenAI.

Responsibilities

  • Design, build, and operate reliable infrastructure across on-prem, hybrid, shared, and product adjacent environments.
  • Establish standardized infrastructure patterns that replace bespoke implementations with repeatable, auditable, secure-by-default systems.
  • Own the lifecycle of critical infrastructure platforms, including provisioning, deployment, upgrades, patching, recovery, and long-term reliability.
  • Build infrastructure-as-code and configuration management using tools such as Terraform, Chef, and Ansible.
  • Mature identity adjacent and policy enforced infrastructure, including Microsoft Entra and Azure management patterns.
  • Build observability, alerting, and incident response mechanisms that improve availability, recoverability, and operational confidence.
  • Automate high-toil and high-risk workflows with guardrails, progressive rollout patterns, and safe rollback paths.
  • Translate incidents, design reviews, and operational learnings into durable fixes, reusable patterns, and stronger technical standards.
  • Influence cross-functional partners across security, identity, network, and platform teams through architecture, implementation, operational data, and clear technical writing

Qualifications

  • Have 10+ years of hands-on experience operating and architecting mission-critical infrastructure in high-reliability environments
  • Have experience running Security Infrastructure
  • Have been the senior technical owner for the design and maturation of complex on-prem, hybrid, or cloud-integrated systems, setting durable architectural patterns used by multiple teams
  • Apply Site Reliability Engineering principles at scale, using observability, automation, and incident learnings to materially reduce risk and operational toil
  • Operate comfortably in ambiguity, making sound architectural decisions under pressure while staying close to technical detail
  • Have experience operating infrastructure for R&D or specialized labs, manufacturing, or other safety critical environments where uptime and recoverability are essential
  • Have experience with fleet, endpoint, or virtual desktop platforms such as FleetDM, Chef, or Azure Virtual Desktop
  • Have experience partnering closely with identity or security engineering teams on hardened, policy enforced infrastructure at scale

Skills

Required:Infrastructure as CodeTerraformChefAnsibleMicrosoft Entra / Azure managementObservability & Incident ResponseSecurity InfrastructureEnd-to-end system ownership

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 our offices, and meal delivery credits as eligible
  • Relocation support for eligible employees
  • Additional taxable fringe benefits, such as charitable donation matching and wellness stipends
Last updated Sep 10, 2026. Interested? Apply on the company site.

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