Software Engineer, Identity Infrastructure is open at OpenAI in San Francisco (hybrid). The posting gives a salary of $230K - $325K. Posted on Oct 22, 2026, and still on OpenAI’s careers page when we last checked, on Nov 14, 2026.
About the role
We’re looking for a hands-on software engineer to design and build high-scale, high-throughput secure access proxies and the distributed systems behind them. These are tier-zero services: researchers, engineers, and agents depend on them to reach critical infrastructure safely and reliably. You’ll work at the intersection of networking, distributed systems, and infrastructure security, building the serving paths and…
The opening lines of the posting. The rest is on OpenAI’s careers page.
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