Senior Software Engineer, Identity Platform - job 1 of 3

About the Team

Identity is the foundation of trust in an AI-powered world. As people build a rich personal and organizational context in ChatGPT, they need systems that protect it, remember it, and let them share it securely across apps and agents. Without strong identity, context stays locked away or exposed. With it, AI becomes safe, personal, and truly useful, empowering users while keeping control firmly in their hands. Our team builds the trusted OpenAI account layer that connects people, enterprises, developers, and agents to OpenAI apps and the broader AI ecosystem.

About the Role

As a Senior Software Engineer on the Identity team, you will build and evolve the foundational identity platform that serves all OpenAI users across our products. You’ll lead the design and implementation of core identity systems — including authentication, authorization, access control, and account management — enabling individuals, teams, and businesses to securely manage accounts at scale while keeping the user experience seamless. This role spans our entire product fleet, including ChatGPT, the API, Sora, Codex, and Atlas, and involves close collaboration with product and platform engineers who rely on identity as critical infrastructure. You’ll drive major architectural initiatives, mentor other engineers, and make platform-level decisions where security, correctness, and reliability are paramount.

In this role, you will:

• Architect and build the next generation of Identity at OpenAI – including new use cases such as Agent identity and Sign In With ChatGPT

• Design and build our identity infrastructure for consumer internet scale, while also solving scalability bottlenecks as they arise.

• Build powerful identity primitives, APIs, and internal tooling that enable product teams across OpenAI to integrate seamlessly with the account and access-control layer.

• Collaborate closely with a broad set of stakeholders, including product, design, go-to-market, and other engineers.

You might thrive in this role if you:

• Bring 7+ years of experience building and shipping production systems at product-driven technology companies, with a track record of owning meaningful technical scope.

• Care deeply about reliability, safety, and performance in production environments.

• Have experience or interest in Authentication, Authorization, Federation, and Identity Management.

• Naturally take ownership end-to-end, are comfortable navigating unfamiliar systems, and are eager to learn whatever’s needed to solve hard problems well.

• Thrive in fast-moving environments, bringing structure to ambiguous problems, balancing competing priorities, and making sound tradeoffs as the company and platform evolve.

About OpenAI

OpenAI is an AI research and deployment company dedicated to ensuring that general-purpose artificial intelligence benefits all of humanity. We push the boundaries of the capabilities of AI systems and seek to safely deploy them to the world through our products. AI is an extremely powerful tool that must be created with safety and human needs at its core, and to achieve our mission, we must encompass and value the many different perspectives, voices, and experiences that form the full spectrum of humanity. 

We are an equal opportunity employer, and we do not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, color, national origin, sex, sexual orientation, age, veteran status, disability, genetic information, or other applicable legally protected characteristic.

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