Software Engineer, Infrastructure Security
OpenAI · Remote · US - Remote · New York City · Seattle · San Francisco ·
COMPENSATION
$266k – $445k
Listed on the employer's job board (Ashby)
- Fully remote
- Infrastructure Security
- Go, Python, Rust
- Kubernetes & Cloud
- Senior level
Join the Infrastructure Security team to safeguard OpenAI’s core research and production environments. You will design and build critical services like authentication systems, proxies, and key management platforms that support frontier AI models.
The work spans bare-metal hardware to Kubernetes clusters, ensuring robust security under intense scale. You will partner with infrastructure engineers to embed security into high-performance compute clusters without compromising speed.
What you'll do
- Architect and implement production-grade security services like auth brokers and proxies
- Partner with engineers to embed security in high-performance compute clusters
- Develop automation tooling to identify and mitigate risks in cloud environments
- Drive initiatives such as line-speed encryption and network isolation
- Participate in design reviews and threat modeling for new systems
What you'll need
- Strong engineering skills in Python, Go, Rust, or C/C++
- Experience shipping high-reliability distributed services
- Background in building critical security infrastructure or auth systems
- Deep understanding of security principles and common vulnerabilities
- Expertise in securing large-scale cloud platforms like Azure, AWS, or GCP
- Familiarity with Kubernetes, service meshes, OIDC, mTLS, and SPIFFE
Stack
- Python
- Go
- Rust
- C/C++
- Kubernetes
- Azure
- AWS
- GCP
- OIDC
- mTLS
- SPIFFE/SPIRE
How you'll work
- Fully remote position
- Global opportunities available