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Software Engineer, Agent Productivity

San Francisco (Remote)$293k–$342kfulltimemidAdded today

About this role

Staff Software Engineer role leading the technical strategy and architecture for agent productivity at OpenAI. You'll design secure, scalable foundations for agents to access context and tools across Slack and enterprise systems, establishing governance patterns and developer platforms that span identity, permissions, and operations.

What you'll do

  • Own technical strategy and architecture enabling teams to build, connect, and deploy agents securely using Slack as primary surface
  • Design permission-aware services giving agents safe access to context, tools, and actions across Slack, internal systems, and enterprise applications
  • Establish scalable patterns for connectivity, context retrieval, authorization, and action execution across diverse systems
  • Develop reusable SDKs, connectors, templates, and deployment patterns that improve developer productivity and reduce integration effort
  • Build policy-aware automation for agent lifecycle management including ownership, permissions, approvals, and credential rotation
  • Implement governance and observability to enforce least privilege, protect boundaries, and provide visibility into agent behavior and data access

What they're looking for

  • Backend and distributed systems design
  • API design and integrations
  • Production system reliability and operations
  • Developer platform and shared services architecture
  • Enterprise platform integration (Slack, identity systems)
  • Security and permission-aware system design
  • Leadership of cross-functional technical initiatives
  • Identity and access management
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OpenAI

OpenAI builds AI infrastructure and products, including large-scale data center campuses for AI computing and generative AI applications for enterprise customers. The company is hiring civil engineers, project engineers, electrical design engineers, data center R&D engineers, and AI deployment engineers to expand its infrastructure capabilities and help customers deploy AI solutions.

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Likely interview questions

  • How would you design a permission model that allows agents to safely access user data across Slack and enterprise systems while maintaining least-privilege principles?
  • Describe your experience building reusable SDKs or developer platforms. How did you measure their adoption and impact on developer productivity?
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