Software Engineer, Identity Platform
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.
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Software Engineer, Identity Platform at OpenAI in San Francisco. UpJobz keeps this listing high-signal for applicants targeting serious high-tech roles across the United States, Canada, and Mexico. 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.
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- 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.
- 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.
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