Backend Engineer, Review & Training Platform

Key Skills

Aartificial intelligence, AWS, Azure, Bash scripting, Employee life cycle, Machine learning techniques, macOS platform, Management, Python Programming, Shell Scripting language

Job Description

About the Role

In this role, you will:

• Innovate on Detection and Response infrastructure for our Core Data Systems
• Build tools for managing the lifecycle of detection/threat rules
• Develop, measure, and tune threat response heuristics to ensure our critical business doesn’t leak to external third-parties..
• Automate manual response processes .
• Ensuring visibility and control of OpenAI’s endpoint fleet (macOS, Windows)
• Driving improvements across identity access and management (IAM), device management, productivity software, and our use of public cloud environments (e.g. AWS, Microsoft Azure).
• Collaborate closely with product managers, researchers, and the rest of our engineering team to create new products around emerging research capabilities and unsolved customer needs
• Iterate rapidly to publicly launch services for external usage/consumption while guaranteeing the security, performance, observability, and reliability of our systems.

You might thrive in this role if you:

• Experience in Security or a Security-adjacent field. We are open to junior, mid-level and senior candidates as we are recruiting multiple Security Engineers to join the team.
• Have meaningful experience with building (and rebuilding) production systems with security in-mind to deliver new product capabilities and to handle increasing scale
• Have a humble attitude, an eagerness to help your colleagues, and a desire to do whatever it takes to make the team succeed
• Experience with Microsoft Azure and/or cloud infrastructure platforms
• Knowledge of modern adversary tactics, techniques, and procedures.
• Proficiency with a scripting language (e.g. Python, Bash, PowerShell, or similar).
• Own problems end-to-end, and are willing to pick up whatever knowledge you're missing to get the job done
• Build tools to accelerate your own (and your teammates’) workflows, but only when off-the-shelf solutions won’t do
• Are interested in and thoughtful about the impacts of AI technology (see our Charter for examples of our goals) and care deeply about the impact of ML models on people's lives; how to maximize the benefits and mitigate the possible harms.

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. 

At OpenAI, we believe artificial intelligence has the potential to help people solve immense global challenges, and we want the upside of AI to be widely shared. Join us in shaping the future of technology.

Compensation, Benefits and Perks

The annual salary range for this role is $230,000 - $370,000. Total compensation also includes generous equity and benefits.

• Medical, dental, and vision insurance for you and your family
• Mental health and wellness support
• 401(k) plan with 4% matching
• Unlimited time off and 18+ company holidays per year
• Paid parental leave (20 weeks) and family-planning support
• Annual learning & development stipend ($1,500 per year)

We are an equal opportunity employer and do not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, age, veteran status, disability or any other legally protected status. Pursuant to the San Francisco Fair Chance Ordinance, we will consider qualified applicants with arrest and conviction records. 

We are committed to providing reasonable accommodations to applicants with disabilities, and requests can be made via this link.

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Compensation, Benefits and Perks

Total compensation also includes generous equity and benefits.

• Medical, dental, and vision insurance for you and your family
• Mental health and wellness support
• 401(k) plan with 4% matching
• Unlimited time off and 18+ company holidays per year
• Paid parental leave (20 weeks) and family-planning support
• Annual learning & development stipend ($1,500 per year)

Annual Salary Range

$230,000—$370,000 USD