Senior Staff Software Engineer, Identity

We are looking for a hands-on senior technical leader to own the architecture and evolution of OpenAI's Enterprise Identity systems.

The Enterprise Identity team builds the identity foundation that enables organizations to adopt and use OpenAI products securely and reliably.

In this role, you will:

• 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.

You might thrive in this role if you:

• 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.

Compensation

• $345K – $405K • Offers Equity

The base pay offered may vary depending on multiple individualized factors, including market location, job-related knowledge, skills, and experience.

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 (1 hour per 30 hours worked, or more, as required by applicable state or local law)
• 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, may also be provided.