Distributed Systems Engineer, Security

About

The company is pushing artificial intelligence to an unprecedented scale. We have a huge compute footprint and run some of the biggest GPU clusters in the world. As our scale has grown, so has our threat landscape – while advanced AI can benefit the world, in the wrong hands, it can also be used maliciously.

Your job will be to protect our work from those who seek to misuse it.

As a security-focused Distributed Systems engineer, you will build large-scale production-grade distributed systems that secure OpenAIs massive fleet. This requires both providing easy to use, introspectable systems that can promote a fast debugging and development cycle, while also enabling that experience to scale to our newest supercomputers maintaining stability and performance throughout.

You will work alongside a diverse team of engineers, developers, and security advisers to design, architect, and drive security improvements across the company. We are a small company, and intend to stay small: as an early member of the security engineering team, the decisions you make today will have a significant impact on the organization today and into the future.

We’re looking for an engineer with a broad knowledge of security, software, and infrastructure. This is a senior role, and we’re looking for someone who has experience with a wide variety of real-world issues.

Responsibilities

• Work across our Go, Python, and Rust stacks
• Build infrastructure and primitives to secure our bare metal and cloud infrastructure, using modern approaches and technologies, such as trusted computing.
• Profile and optimize and help design for scale, while keeping security as transparent as possible to engineers and researchers.

Qualifications

• Have designed, implemented, and operated large-scale distributed systems.
• Love figuring out how systems work and continuously come up with ideas for how to make them faster while minimizing complexity and maintenance burden.
• Have strong software engineering skills and are proficient in Python, Go, and/or Rust.
• Have a good understanding of tradeoffs between security, reliability, usability, and performance.

Equal Opportunity Employer

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.

Compensation

$325K – $490K + Offers Equity