Enterprise Security Engineer
About the Team
Join the IT team within OpenAI Security and play a critical role in ensuring our researchers, engineers, and staff have the secure and seamless tools they need to push the boundaries of AI. We're a small, agile, and well-resourced team with a mandate to build a world-class enterprise security program. If you're passionate about security and thrive in a highly technical, employee-focused environment, this is your opportunity to make a real impact.
About the Role
As an Enterprise Security Engineer, you'll be at the forefront of protecting OpenAI's internal information systems and infrastructure. You'll collaborate closely with our IT and Security teams to develop cutting-edge security capabilities, enforce robust security policies, and proactively monitor internal systems for emerging threats.
This role is open to remote employees, or relocation assistance is available to Seattle.
What You'll Do:
Develop and implement innovative security measures to safeguard our company's information assets from unauthorized access, disclosure, or misuse.
Proactively monitor internal and external systems for security threats, analyze alerts, and orchestrate rapid incident response.
Contribute to and enforce our comprehensive IT and Security policies and procedures.
Collaborate closely with our IT department to harden our infrastructure using industry best practices in AzureAD, GSuite, Github, and other SaaS tools.
Advise employees on best practices for maintaining the security of their endpoints, office AV, and network infrastructure.
Design and implement novel sharing controls, including intelligent groups management and Data Loss Prevention (DLP) strategies, to protect sensitive company data.
Champion forward-thinking security models like "secure by default" and "zero trust" to create sustainable and secure environments for our knowledge workers and developers.
Identify and remediate vulnerabilities in our internal systems, adhering to the highest standards of data security.
Leverage our own AI-driven models to develop advanced systems for improved security detection and response, data classification, and other security-related tasks.
Educate employees on the importance of data security and empower them with the knowledge and tools to maintain a secure environment.
Contribute to OpenAI's endpoint and cloud security roadmaps by staying ahead of the curve on the latest security threats and recommending strategic improvements to our security posture.
What You'll Bring:
Experience in protecting and managing macOS fleets.
Experience deploying and managing endpoint security solutions (e.g., management frameworks, EDR tools).
Experience with public cloud service providers (e.g., Amazon AWS, Microsoft Azure).
Experience with identity and access management frameworks and protocols, including SAML, OAUTH, and SCIM.
Experience with e-mail security protocols (e.g., SPF, DKIM, DMARC) and controls.
Intermediate or advanced proficiency with a scripting language (e.g., Python, Bash, or similar).
Strong understanding of modern adversary tactics, techniques, and procedures.
Exceptional ability to empathize and collaborate with colleagues, independently manage and drive projects, and prioritize efforts for maximum risk reduction.
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, color, national origin, sex, sexual orientation, age, veteran status, disability, genetic information, or other applicable legally protected characteristic.
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Qualified applicants with arrest or conviction records will be considered for employment in accordance with applicable law, including the San Francisco Fair Chance Ordinance, the Los Angeles County Fair Chance Ordinance for Employers, and the California Fair Chance Act. 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.
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