Software Engineer, Identity Infrastructure

The Identity Infrastructure Engineering team builds identity and access systems for OpenAI. This role involves designing and implementing high-scale secure access proxies, gateways, and credential brokers. Responsibilities include integrating identity and access policy, building observability, engineering multi-region rollouts, and owning production support. The engineer will work at the intersection of networking, distributed systems, and infrastructure security, building serving paths and and

Candidates should have experience building and operating production backend, proxy, networking, or infrastructure services at scale. Deep understanding of networking protocols (HTTP, TCP, TLS, DNS, routing, load balancing). Proficiency in Go, Rust, Python or similar languages. Strong software engineering fundamentals including testing, profiling, and telemetry. Ability to handle performance bottlenecks, partial failures, and multi-region deployment. Experience with Teleport or comparable access