mid Security Engineer ic · Posted May 8, 2025

About this role

OpenAI is hiring a mid-level Security Engineer based in London, United Kingdom. The posting calls out experience with AWS, GCP, Azure, Kubernetes.

Role
Security Engineer
Function
security
Level
mid
Track
Individual contributor
Employment
Full-time
Location
London, United Kingdom
Department
Security
Posted
May 8, 2025
AI Summary
Build and operate detection and response systems to protect OpenAI's infrastructure, products, and research environments. Design detection pipelines, automate incident response workflows, and partner with security and infrastructure teams to define telemetry requirements and threat models across endpoints, identity, cloud, and Kubernetes environments.

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Job description

from OpenAI careers

About the Team

Security is at the foundation of OpenAI’s mission to ensure that artificial general intelligence benefits all of humanity.

The Security team protects OpenAI’s technology, people, and products. We are technical in what we build but are operational in how we do our work, and are committed to supporting all products and research at OpenAI. Our Security team tenets include: prioritizing for impact, enabling researchers, preparing for future transformative technologies, and engaging a robust security culture.

About the Role

As a Security Engineer on Detection & Response, you’ll help protect OpenAI’s most sensitive assets– including our intellectual property, customer data, and the infrastructure that supports them– by building and operating the systems we use to detect suspicious activity and respond effectively when it matters. You’ll work across endpoints, identity, cloud, hyperscale compute infrastructure, and datacenter-adjacent layers, partnering closely with security teams and infrastructure owners to define the telemetry and response requirements we need and building tooling and automation where it delivers the most leverage.

In this role, you will:

  • Build and evolve Detection & Response capabilities across OpenAI’s infrastructure, products, and research environments, with an emphasis on high-signal detection and reliable operational response.

  • Engineer detection pipelines and tooling: develop rule lifecycle management, measurement/quality loops (coverage, precision, latency), tuning processes, and safe rollout patterns.

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