# Software Engineer, Enterprise Controls

**Company**: OpenAI
**Location**: San Francisco
**Experience**: senior
**Job type**: Full time
**Salary**: $230K - $385K
**Category**: Engineering
**Industry**: Technology
**Wikidata**: https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q124605186

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## Description

## Compensation

The base pay offered may vary depending on multiple individualized factors, including market location, job-related knowledge, skills, and experience. The salary range for this role is $230K – $385K, with generous equity, performance-related bonuses for eligible employees, and the following benefits.

Benefits include:

- 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 to fuel your professional growth

- 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

## About the Team

Enterprise Controls & Console is part of Enterprise Engineering. We build the permissions, governance, and administration capabilities that help organisations use and deploy ChatGPT, Codex, and OpenAI products with confidence. Our work combines complex backend platform engineering with enterprise product needs and touches every major product and model launch.

## About the Role

We are looking for an experienced backend software engineer to help shape and build the systems behind enterprise access, governance, and sharing. You will bring deep backend expertise and strong product judgment to problems that span multiple OpenAI products.

## 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 that are understandable to 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 behaviour, 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.

## Requirements

- 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 behaviour.

- 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.

## Skills

### Required
- Python
- Go
- Rust
- Java
- C++
- backend software engineering
- distributed services
- APIs
- data models
- authorization
- permissions
- enterprise governance

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