Staff Security Reliability Engineer

Responsibilities

• Design, build, and operate reliable infrastructure across on-prem, hybrid, and shared environments.
• Establish standardized infrastructure patterns to replace bespoke implementations with repeatable, secure-by-default systems.
• Own the full lifecycle of critical infrastructure platforms, including provisioning, deployment, upgrades, and recovery.
• Build infrastructure-as-code and configuration management using tools such as Terraform, Chef, and Ansible.
• Mature identity-adjacent and policy-enforced infrastructure, including Microsoft Entra and Azure management patterns.
• Build observability, alerting, and incident response mechanisms to improve availability and operational confidence.
• Automate high-toil and high-risk workflows with guardrails and safe rollback paths.

Requirements

• 10+ years of hands-on experience operating and architecting mission-critical infrastructure in high-reliability environments.
• Proven track record as a senior technical owner for the design and maturation of complex hybrid or cloud-integrated systems.
• Deep application of Site Reliability Engineering (SRE) principles at scale, including automation and incident management.
• Experience with infrastructure-as-code and configuration management tools.
• Ability to influence cross-functional partners across security, identity, network, and platform teams.
• Experience partnering closely with identity or security engineering teams on hardened, policy-enforced infrastructure.

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience operating infrastructure for R&D, specialized labs, or safety-critical environments.
• Experience with fleet, endpoint, or virtual desktop platforms such as FleetDM, Chef, or Azure Virtual Desktop.

Benefits

• Competitive salary ($293K – $385K) and generous equity.
• Medical, dental, and vision insurance for you and your family.
• 401(k) retirement plan with employer match.
• Paid parental leave and flexible PTO.
• Mental health and wellness support.
• Daily meals in our offices and annual learning and development stipends.

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.