OpenAI
Software Engineer, Identity Infrastructure
$230K–$325K
San Francisco +2 · Hybrid · Full-time · Posted Oct 22, 2026
- Location
- San Francisco
New York City
Seattle
About the job
Build and operate high-scale secure access proxies and distributed identity infrastructure that provide reliable, auditable access to critical systems.
What you'll do
- Design secure access proxies, gateways, and credential brokers, and integrate identity and access policies across clients and target systems.
- Improve observability, performance, reliability, and safe multi-region rollout and recovery for access services.
- Own services in production, including support, incident recovery, migrations, and developer-facing APIs and tools.
What they ask for
- Production experience building and operating backend, proxy, networking, or infrastructure services at demanding scale or availability.
- Practical networking knowledge, including HTTP, TCP, TLS, DNS, routing, and load balancing.
- Understanding of authentication, authorization, least privilege, trust boundaries, and credential handling.
- Strong software engineering fundamentals and experience with Go, Rust, Python, or similar languages.
Nice to have
- Teleport or comparable access-platform experience.
- Experience handling performance bottlenecks, partial failures, or multi-region deployments.
Pay
$230K – $325K USD base salary
Tools
Teleport, HTTP, TCP, TLS, DNS, Go, Rust, Python
AI focus
Build identity infrastructure used by researchers, engineers, and agents; no AI development work is specified.
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