What are the responsibilities and job description for the Site Reliability Engineer, Enterprise IAM position at OpenAI?
Site Reliability Engineer, Enterprise IAM
OpenAI’s IT Engineering organization advances the mission of deploying artificial general intelligence (AGI) for the benefit of all by delivering secure, scalable, and resilient technology solutions. Our team builds and maintains robust infrastructure that safeguards OpenAI’s data and systems while ensuring employees are well-equipped and seamlessly connected. By prioritizing security, reliability, and user-centric solutions, we empower OpenAI employees to drive impactful AI research, corporate operations, and product innovation.
About the Role
As an SRE, Enterprise IAM at OpenAI, you will be responsible for designing, building, and maintaining scalable Identity and Access Management (IAM) solutions that empower our teams while ensuring security and compliance. You will leverage automation, Infrastructure-as-Code (IaaC), and CI / CD methodologies to optimize identity lifecycle management, primarily within AzureAD, while integrating across multi-cloud environments such as AWS and GCP.
This role requires a proactive, engineering-first mindset to build automation-driven identity workflows, improve security posture through zero-trust frameworks, and collaborate with security and DevOps teams to implement scalable IAM solutions. You will play a critical role in shaping and evolving IAM processes by adopting cutting-edge technologies, automating access management, and ensuring seamless and secure user experiences across OpenAI.
By implementing best practices in identity automation, observability, and policy enforcement, you will directly contribute to the efficiency and productivity for teams across OpenAI.
In this role, you will :
- Design, build, and maintain scalable IAM automation workflows using Python, PowerShell, and Terraform to support user lifecycle management.
- Develop Infrastructure-as-Code (IaC) solutions for IAM environments, leveraging Terraform to manage Azure / Entra lifecycle workflows at scale.
- Implement CI / CD pipelines to automate IAM deployments and ensure seamless integration across cloud platforms (Azure, AWS, GCP).
- Define and implement monitoring and observability strategies to proactively manage IAM system health and compliance.
- Own the configuration and optimization of AzureAD identity access, ensuring seamless user provisioning through automated birthright access solutions.
- Collaborate with security and DevOps teams to integrate IAM solutions within a Zero Trust framework, driving security automation and compliance.
- Lead initiatives to improve IAM practices by adopting emerging technologies, automating processes, and optimizing for scalability and efficiency.
You may be a fit for this role if you have :
You might thrive in this role if you have :
This is a hybrid role and will require 3 days a week in our San Francisco office.
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.
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.
For US Based Candidates : 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.
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.
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