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Software Engineer, Enterprise Controls

OpenAI· Applied AI
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San FranciscoFull-timePosted 2w ago

About the role

Backend software engineer focusing on enterprise access, governance, and sharing for OpenAI products. Lead design and delivery of permissions and authorization systems across ChatGPT, Codex, and OpenAI APIs, with hands-on implementation and production operations.

Responsibilities

  • Design and build backend services for permissions, authorization, and governance across ChatGPT, Codex, and OpenAI APIs.
  • Develop sharing capabilities between people and agents, with clear access rules and enterprise controls for administrators and users.
  • Build reusable services and APIs that support workspace administration and console experiences as OpenAI products evolve.
  • Lead architecture and delivery for complex initiatives, aligning product and engineering partners on requirements, tradeoffs, and rollout plans.
  • Translate enterprise needs into clear configuration, predictable permission behavior, and maintainable systems that other product teams can build on.
  • Own the reliability, security, and performance of the services you ship through testing, observability, production debugging, and continuous improvement.

Qualifications

  • 9+ years of professional backend software engineering experience, excluding internships, building and operating production services.
  • Deep backend engineering expertise and a track record of shipping complex product or platform capabilities that customers depend on.
  • Experience providing technical leadership for substantial initiatives, making architectural decisions, and coordinating delivery across teams while remaining hands-on.
  • Strong proficiency in a backend language such as Python, Go, Rust, Java, or C++, with sound software design and systems fundamentals.
  • Experience designing distributed services, APIs, and data models, with an understanding of reliability, consistency, scalability, and performance tradeoffs.
  • Experience building authorization, permissions, or enterprise governance systems, including translating access policies into reliable application behavior.
  • Strong product judgment and communication skills, with the ability to turn ambiguous user and administrator needs into practical technical decisions.
  • A track record of owning production systems, diagnosing difficult failures, and improving security, testing, observability, and operational reliability.

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 Oct 8, 2026. Interested? Apply on the company site.

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