Software Engineer

About the Company

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.

Responsibilities

• Shape the evolution of Codex by identifying how teams use AI-powered software engineering and driving changes across product, infrastructure, and model behavior
• Build core ecosystem, team, and enterprise primitives including plugins, RBAC, admin surfaces, and usage controls
• Design and own secure, observable, full-stack systems powering Codex across web, IDEs, CLI, and CI/CD
• Integrate with enterprise identity and governance systems such as SSO/SAML/OIDC and SCIM
• Lead real-world deployments by working directly with customers and the Go To Market team to turn feedback into scalable improvements

Requirements

• Strong software engineering fundamentals with experience turning ideas into productionized systems
• Proficiency in backend languages such as Python, Go, or Rust
• Understanding of distributed systems concepts with a focus on reliability, observability, and security
• Experience with enterprise foundations like identity and access (SAML/OIDC), SCIM, RBAC, and data governance
• Ability to navigate 0 -> 1 environments and translate diverse requirements into scalable implementations