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Senior Staff Software Engineer, Identity

OpenAI· Applied AI
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Hybrid (San Francisco), Hybrid (Mountain View)$345k - $405k + equity + bonusFull-timePosted 2mo ago

About the role

Hands-on senior technical leader responsible for the architecture and evolution of OpenAI's Enterprise Identity systems, setting long-term technical vision and aligning teams to scale, secure, and operate identity infrastructure across products for enterprise customers.

Responsibilities

  • Own the technical vision and architecture for the Enterprise Identity stack, including SSO, SCIM, tenant architecture, groups, permissions, and identity capabilities in enterprise administration surfaces.
  • Lead the design and evolution of highly available, latency-sensitive identity systems serving a large and diverse global enterprise customer base.
  • Establish common identity models and primitives that work consistently across OpenAI's products and enable the organization to scale.
  • Set a high security bar by anticipating abuse cases, failure modes, and the long-term implications of new capabilities.
  • Drive alignment across enterprise product, infrastructure, and security partners, resolving ambiguity and influencing roadmaps beyond the immediate team.
  • Provide technical leadership to senior engineers and raise the quality of architecture and execution across the broader organization.

Qualifications

  • Have owned the architecture of a broad, business-critical platform or large-scale distributed-systems domain at the senior-staff level.
  • Have set multi-year technical direction and successfully aligned multiple teams around complex architectural decisions.
  • Understand enterprise identity, enterprise architecture, and the operational needs of large customers in multi-product environments.
  • Have experience with SSO, SCIM, identity providers, tenant models, permissions, groups, or adjacent identity infrastructure.
  • Bring a security-minded, adversarial approach to systems design and instinctively consider how capabilities could fail or be abused.
  • Can move between deep technical judgment, organizational influence, and hands-on leadership where it matters most.

Skills

Required:Architecture leadershipSSOSCIMIdentity models and primitives

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 3, 2026. Interested? Apply on the company site.

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