Client Platform Engineer

Security - San Francisco

About the Team

OpenAI’s Client Platform Engineering team builds and operates the platforms that make employee devices secure, reliable, and easy to use. Our work spans device posture and trust, onboarding, application delivery, operating-system updates, fleet telemetry, and employee-facing remediation. We partner with Security, IT, Research, Applied, and specialized engineering teams to reduce friction while protecting OpenAI’s systems and data.

About the Role

As a Client Platform Engineer, You will build and own agentic solutions that automate OAI fleet operations and reduce employee friction, with measurable outcomes and reliability. You will develop first-party software, integrate commercial and open-source tools, and own changes from design and testing through deployment and production operations. Your work will improve security, reliability, and the employee experience.

We’re looking for people who are passionate about automation, endpoint security, and building scalable solutions that improve employee experience. You should have deep experience securing and managing Linux fleets at scale, with strong software engineering skills to automate security controls and fleet operations across environments with different compliance requirements. Your problem-solving mindset and attention to detail will be key to success in this role.

In this role, you will:

Build the platforms that help employees do their best work on devices they can trust.

• Own the design, development, deployment, and operation of secure Linux endpoint management systems across environments with different compliance requirements.
• Create magical employee experiences by building agentic workflows with OpenAI products and models that use fleet telemetry to anticipate issues, guide remediation, and design friction out of everyday work.
• Make new hires productive from day one, using OpenAI products to simplify device setup, software delivery, and onboarding support.
• Build secure, reliable workflows with scoped access, human review for sensitive changes, traceable actions, and tested recovery.
• Partner with IT, Security, Research, and Engineering to deliver consistent Linux provisioning, updates, and support alongside macOS and Windows.
• Develop first-party software and integrate commercial and open-source tools for software packaging, deployment, and application management.
• Manage fleet configuration as code through GitOps, version control, peer review, and automated validation.
• Build and operate CI/CD pipelines for fleet infrastructure across Azure, AWS, and GCP, with staged deployments and tested rollback.
• Use fleet telemetry to proactively improve performance and reliability, detect configuration drift, and verify deployment outcomes.
• Participate in engineering on-call, own incident resolution, and turn operational lessons into lasting improvements that reduce recurring failures and manual work.

You may be a fit for this role if you have:

• Proficiency in Python, Go, or another modern programming language.
• Deep experience securing and managing Linux fleets with configuration management, MDM, device enrollment, policy enforcement, and cloud identity integration.
• Demonstrated success with open-source endpoint tools for configuration, device and application management, and telemetry.
• Experience delivering secure, reliable, scalable systems across different compliance requirements.
• Deep experience managing infrastructure at scale with IaC and GitOps, Ansible, and Chef.
• Experience integrating and operating fleet infrastructure with CI/CD and DevOps workflows.
• A track record of deploying and operating fleet infrastructure in public cloud environments (Azure, AWS, GCP).
• Initiative, analytical judgment, and the ability to turn problems into practical improvements.

You might thrive in this role if you have:

• Deep experience with open-source fleet management tools and frameworks.
• Experience with containerization technologies such as Docker and Kubernetes.
• Familiarity with compliance frameworks such as SOC 2, ISO 27001, FedRAMP, and NIST.
• Strong soft skills, including stakeholder communication and cross-functional collaboration.
• Relevant professional certifications such as CISSP, CISA, CISM, CCSP.
• A security thought leader with contributions to CPE open-source projects or technical communities.

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 the full spectrum of humanity.

We are an equal opportunity employeration, or other applicable legally protected characteristic.

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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.

Compensation

$347K – $445K + Offers Equity

The base pay offered may vary depending on multiple individualized factorsance-related bonus(es) for eligible employees, and the following benefits.

• Medical, dental, and vision insurance for you and your family, with employer contributions to Health Savings Accounts
• Pre-tax accounts for Health FSA, Dependent Care FSA, and commuter expenses (parking and transit)
• 401(k) retirement plan with employer match
• Paid parental leave (up to 24 weeks for birth parents and 20 weeks for non-birthing parents), plus paid medical and caregiver leave (up to 8 weeks)
• Paid time off: flexible PTO for exempt employees and up to 15 days annually for non-exempt employees
• 13+ paid company holidays, and multiple paid coordinated company office closures throughout the year for focus and recharge, plus paid sick or safe time (1 hour per 30 hours worked, or more, as required by applicable state or local law)
• Mental health and wellness support
• Employer-paid basic life and disability coverage
• Annual learning and development stipend to fuel your professional growth
• Daily meals in our offices, and meal delivery credits as eligible
• Relocation support for eligible employees
• Additional taxable fringe benefits, such as charitable donation matching and wellness stipends, may also be provided.

More details about our benefits are available to candidates during the hiring process.

This role is at-will and OpenAI reserves the right to modify base pay and other compensation components at any time based on individual performance, team or company results, or market conditions.