OpenAI
Software Engineer, Enterprise Controls
$230K–$385K
San Francisco · Full-time · Posted Oct 3, 2026
- Experience
- 9+ years of professional backend software engineering experience, excluding internships.
About the job
Designs and operates backend systems for enterprise access, permissions, governance, and sharing across OpenAI products.
What you'll do
- Build backend services and APIs for authorization, governance, sharing, and workspace administration.
- Lead technical design and delivery of cross-product initiatives, translating enterprise needs into clear system behavior.
- Own production reliability, security, and performance through testing, observability, debugging, and ongoing improvement.
What they ask for
- Deep backend engineering expertise and experience shipping complex production capabilities.
- Technical leadership on substantial initiatives, including architectural decisions and cross-team delivery while hands-on.
- Strong proficiency in a backend language such as Python, Go, Rust, Java, or C++, and experience with distributed services, APIs, and data models.
- Experience building authorization, permissions, or enterprise governance systems and owning production services.
Pay
$230K – $385K USD base salary
Tools
ChatGPT, Codex, OpenAI APIs, Python, Go, Rust, Java, C++
AI focus
Builds enterprise controls for access, governance, and sharing across products that include ChatGPT, Codex, and OpenAI APIs; no AI model development work is specified.
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