IT Solutions Engineer

Job details

Work model

Hybrid

Salary

$187K - $266K

Location

San Francisco

Hiring context

How this role compares at OpenAI

OpenAI has 784 live roles in MeritLog’s catalog across 14 job families, and 302 of them are in engineering. 653 of those listings publish a pay range, a disclosure rate of 83%.

This role's posted range of $187K - $266K sits above 10% of the 640 other OpenAI roles quoted over the same currency and period.

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What the role asks for

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Job description

About the Team IT Systems Operations serves as the operational control layer connecting Security, Engineering, and Employee Technology platforms. The team ensures employee-facing systems, identity workflows, and enterprise applications operate in a predictable, governed, and continuously reliable manner as the organization scales. Beyond implementation, the team establishes structured operating patterns that ensure platform changes, access models, integrations, and lifecycle workflows evolve safely and consistently across the enterprise environment. About the Role This role acts as an operational owner for identity-connected enterprise SaaS platforms and system change controls supporting OpenAI’s compliance requirements. The engineer will be responsible for ensuring that production configuration, access models, and platform changes remain compliant, auditable, and consistently operated through defined controls. You will own and operationalize controlled system and workflow changes across identity platforms, SaaS applications, collaboration tooling, and enterprise infrastructure. You will partner closely with Security, Platform Engineering, and IT Support Operations to: - Ensure identity and access workflows behave consistently across systems - Implement structured rollout and configuration practices for enterprise applications - Improve visibility and traceability of system changes impacting employee workflows - Translate operational requirements into durable automation and policy-aligned implementations Success in this role requires not only strong engineering capability, but also sound operational judgment, disciplined documentation practices, and effective cross-functional collaboration. In this role, you will: Enterprise SaaS & Identity Platform Ownership - Own administration and operational stewardship of enterprise SaaS and identity-connected platforms, ensuring configuration integrity, access governance, and compliance with defined control requirements. - Own onboarding, access modification, and offboarding workflows aligned to standardized entitlement models. - Ensure lifecycle events propagate reliably across downstream systems and maintain accurate, auditable access state. - Maintain consistent platform configuration and reduce unmanaged variance across business-critical systems. - Partner with Security and IT Support Operations to enforce least-privilege access models and durable ownership boundaries. Controlled Change, Automation & Operational Reliability - Design and operationalize structured rollout patterns for enterprise system configuration and workflow changes. - Replace manual administrative actions with governed automation incorporating validation, logging, and rollback-aware deployment patterns. - Translate operational and compliance requirements into durable system implementations that improve reliability and auditability. - Build automated operational workflows using APIs, infrastructure-as-code, scripting, and low-code automation platforms. Integration & Platform Engineering - Execute and maintain integrations across identity providers, SaaS platforms, ITSM systems, and internal tooling to ensure consistent system behavior. - Standardize integration and deployment approaches across environments to support scalable platform adoption. - Translate ambiguous operational requirements into structured workflows and dependable system implementations. - Partner cross-functionally to convert recurring incidents and operational friction into durable system improvements. We’re looking for someone with: - Experience owning enterprise SaaS and identity platforms end-to-end. - Experience with implementing and operating SOX, SOC 2, and related controls in these platforms. - Experience automating platforms and audits. - Excellent communication and collaboration skills. 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 we 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. For additional information, please see OpenAI’s Affirmative Action and Equal Employment Opportunity Policy Statement https://cdn.openai.com/policies/eeo-policy-statement.pdf. Background checks for applicants will be administered in accordance with applicable law, and qualified applicants with arrest or conviction records will be considered for employment consistent with those laws, including the San Francisco Fair Chance Ordinance, the Los Angeles County Fair Chance Ordinance for Employers, and the California Fair Chance Act, for US-based candidates. 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. To notify OpenAI that you believe this job posting is non-compliant, please submit a report through this form https://form.asana.com/?d=57018692298241&k=5MqR40fZd7jlxVUh5J-UeA. No response will be provided to inquiries unrelated to job posting compliance. We are committed to providing reasonable accommodations to applicants with disabilities, and requests can be made via this link https://form.asana.com/?k=bQ7w9h3iexRlicUdWRiwvg&d=57018692298241. OpenAI Global Applicant Privacy Policy https://cdn.openai.com/policies/global-employee-and-contractor-privacy-policy.pdf 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.