OpenAI
Software Engineer, Host Assurance
$266K–$445K
San Francisco +2 · Hybrid · Full-time · Posted Sep 5, 2026
- Location
- San Francisco
Seattle
US - Remote
About the job
Build and operate software and services that verify and maintain trust in bare-metal and VM hosts before they run production workloads.
What you'll do
- Build host-trust capabilities including machine identity, certificate enrollment, secure bootstrap, attestation, and verification tooling.
- Validate hardware and firmware, monitor security drift, and partner with infrastructure teams to make secure deployment practical.
- Own production components through testing, rollout, monitoring, recovery planning, operation, and on-call support.
What they ask for
- Strong software engineering experience building and operating reliable production systems at scale.
- Depth in distributed systems, backend or platform engineering, operating systems, or infrastructure security.
- Experience writing production-quality code and reasoning about failure modes, operational safety, and maintainability.
- Experience supporting critical production systems at scale, such as being on-call.
Nice to have
- Experience with PKI, HSMs, machine identity, attestation, secure boot, or hardware security.
Pay
$266K – $445K USD base salary
Tools
PKI, HSMs
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