{"schemaVersion":"jobsearcher.job.v1","id":"4b44fd0dbbe640ef0df69048","url":"https://jobsearcher.com/jobs/4b44fd0dbbe640ef0df69048","canonicalUrl":"https://jobsearcher.com/jobs/4b44fd0dbbe640ef0df69048","title":"Security Reliability Engineering, Lead","description":"About the Team\n\nThe Infrastructure Engineering function sits within IT and is responsible for reliably building, deploying, and operating critical on prem and hybrid environments that power internal services and critical R&D environments.\n\nThis is a new, bootstrap team focused on applying strong Site Reliability Engineering discipline to environments where uptime, safety, recoverability, and security are non-negotiable. The team replaces bespoke, one off infrastructure with standardized infrastructure-as-code building blocks that compound reliability and operational leverage as OpenAI scales.\n\nAbout the Role\n\nWe are looking for a Security Reliability Engineering Lead to design, build, and operate reliable, secure, and scalable infrastructure that underpins identity, access, endpoint, and shared platform services across the company.\n\nIn this role, you will own infrastructure and identity systems end to end, from foundational design and provisioning through policy enforcement, upgrades, recovery, and day two operations. You will establish durable, production grade platforms that remove operational friction, enforce security by default, and enable teams to move faster with confidence.\n\nThis role is well suited for a senior engineer who thrives in ambiguity, enjoys owning complex systems end to end, and raises the reliability and security bar by replacing fragile implementations with standardized, repeatable infrastructure.\n\nThis role is based in our San Francisco HQ and requires in-office presence.\n\nIn this role, you will:\nSet direction and establish strong foundations\n\nDefine and evolve infrastructure patterns for on prem and hybrid environments, including self hosted platforms, vendor supported systems, and lab environments.\n\nEstablish standardized, production grade deployment and operational models that replace bespoke implementations.\n\nPartner with IT, Security, Identity, and Network teams to ensure infrastructure meets reliability, security, and access requirements by design.\n\nDesign and mature the production architecture for IAM adjacent platforms such as Microsoft Entra using SRE principles.\n\nEstablish common management rules and shared resources within Azure subscriptions to ensure consistent, policy aligned operations.\n\nBuild, operate, and scale reliably\n\nOwn the full lifecycle of infrastructure systems, including deployment, upgrades, patching, recovery, and ongoing operations.\n\nOperate and harden shared infrastructure provisioned through Infra Terraform, ensuring repeatability, auditability, and safe change management.\n\nDesign and implement infrastructure as code and configuration management to support shared services, identity adjacent systems, and endpoint platforms using tools like Chef, Ansible and Terraform.\n\nBuild and operate monitoring, alerting, and incident response mechanisms to meet high availability and recoverability targets.\n\nLead incident response and postmortems across infrastructure, identity adjacent platforms, and fleet systems, driving durable fixes and shared learning.\n\nBuild and operate containerized and platform services, including Kubernetes and Docker-based workloads, using DevOps practices that emphasize reliability, repeatability, and safe change management.\n\nUse Git-based workflows as the source of truth for infrastructure and policy changes, enabling review, auditability, and safe, reversible automation.\n\nAutomate for leverage and safety\n\nIdentify high leverage automation opportunities that eliminate manual toil and reduce operational risk across infrastructure and access related systems.\n\nImplement guardrails, safety mechanisms, and progressive rollout patterns for infrastructure and policy enforcement changes.\n\nEnsure automation is safe, observable, and resilient under failure conditions, particularly for shared services and high blast radius systems.\n\nPartner and lead through influence\n\nWork closely with Security, Identity, Network, Client Platform, and Platform Engineering teams to operate secure, policy enforced infrastructure.\n\nSupport execution and enforcement of access management policies and privileged access mechanisms owned by partner teams, with a focus on reliability and operability.\n\nCoach and elevate engineers and partner teams through design reviews, incidents, and operational improvements.\n\nDrive reliability improvements across teams, even without direct authority.\n\nYou might thrive in this role if you:\nHave 10 or more years of experience operating and architecting mission critical infrastructure in high reliability environments.\n\nHave led the design and maturation of complex on prem, hybrid, or cloud integrated systems, setting durable architectural patterns used by multiple teams.\n\nApply Site Reliability Engineering principles at scale, using observability, automation, and incident learnings to materially reduce risk and operational toil.\n\nOperate comfortably in ambiguity, making sound architectural decisions under pressure while staying close to technical detail.\n\nInfluence cross functional partners across security, identity, network, and platform teams to land reliability improvements without direct authority.\n\nNice to have:\nExperience operating infrastructure for R&D or specialized labs, manufacturing, or other safety critical environments where uptime and recoverability are essential.\n\nHands on experience with fleet, endpoint, or virtual desktop platforms such as FleetDM, Chef, or Azure Virtual Desktop.\n\nExperience partnering closely with identity or security engineering teams on hardened, policy enforced infrastructure at scale\n\nAbout OpenAI\n\nOpenAI 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.\n\nWe are an equal opportunity employer, and we do not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, color, national origin, sex, sexual orientation, age, veteran status, disability, genetic information, or other applicable legally protected characteristic.\n\nFor additional information, please see\n\nOpenAI’s Affirmative Action and Equal Employment Opportunity Policy Statement\n\n.\n\nBackground checks for applicants will be administered in accordance with applicable law, and qualified applicants with arrest or conviction records will be considered for employment consistent with those laws, including the San Francisco Fair Chance Ordinance, the Los Angeles County Fair Chance Ordinance for Employers, and the California Fair Chance Act, for US-based candidates. For unincorporated Los Angeles County workers: we reasonably believe that criminal history may have a direct, adverse and negative relationship with the following job duties, potentially resulting in the withdrawal of a conditional offer of employment: protect computer hardware entrusted to you from theft, loss or damage; return all computer hardware in your possession (including the data contained therein) upon termination of employment or end of assignment; and maintain the confidentiality of proprietary, confidential, and non-public information. In addition, job duties require access to secure and protected information technology systems and related data security obligations.\n\nTo notify OpenAI that you believe this job posting is non-compliant, please submit a report through\n\nthis form\n\n. No response will be provided to inquiries unrelated to job posting compliance.\n\nWe are committed to providing reasonable accommodations to applicants with disabilities.\n\nOpenAI Global Applicant Privacy Policy\n\nAt 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. 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For unincorporated Los Angeles County workers: we reasonably believe that criminal history may have a direct, adverse and negative relationship with the following job duties, potentially resulting in the withdrawal of a conditional offer of employment: protect computer hardware entrusted to you from theft, loss or damage; return all computer hardware in your possession (including the data contained therein) upon termination of employment or end of assignment; and maintain the confidentiality of proprietary, confidential, and non-public information. In addition, job duties require access to secure and protected information technology systems and related data security obligations.\n\nTo notify OpenAI that you believe this job posting is non-compliant, please submit a report through\n\nthis form\n\n. 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