Software Engineer, Enterprise Controls

Job summary

Responsibilities

We are looking for an experienced backend software engineer to help shape and build the systems behind enterprise access, governance, and sharing. You will bring deep backend expertise and strong product judgment to problems that span multiple OpenAI products, including how people and agents share…

• Design and build backend services for permissions, authorization, and governance across ChatGPT, Codex, and OpenAI APIs.
• Develop sharing capabilities between people and agents, with clear access rules and enterprise controls that are understandable to administrators and users.
• Build reusable services and APIs that support workspace administration and console experiences as OpenAI products evolve.
• Lead architecture and delivery for complex initiatives, aligning product and engineering partners on requirements, tradeoffs, and rollout plans.
• Translate enterprise needs into clear configuration, predictable permission behavior, and maintainable systems that other product teams can build on.

What they're looking for

• 9+ years of professional backend software engineering experience, excluding internships, building and operating production services.
• Deep backend engineering expertise and a track record of shipping complex product or platform capabilities that customers depend on.
• Experience providing technical leadership for substantial initiatives, making architectural decisions, and coordinating delivery across teams while remaining hands-on.
• Strong proficiency in a backend language such as Python, Go, Rust, Java, or C++, with sound software design and systems fundamentals.
• Experience designing distributed services, APIs, and data models, with an understanding of reliability, consistency, scalability, and performance tradeoffs.

Tech stack

• Python
• Go
• Rust
• Java
• C++