Senior Staff Software Engineer, IdentityActive$345K–$405K

The opportunity

The Enterprise Identity team builds the identity foundation that enables organizations to adopt and use OpenAI products securely and reliably. The team owns the enterprise identity stack, including SSO, SCIM, tenant architecture, and identity capabilities across the enterprise…

What you'll do

  • 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.

What they're looking for

  • 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.