• San Francisco, Seattle or NYC $293K – $385K • Offers Equity
• Zone A $263.7K – $346.5K • Offers Equity
• Zone B $234.4K – $308K • Offers Equity

The base pay offered may vary depending on multiple individualized factors, including market location, job-related knowledge, skills, and experience. If the role is non-exempt, overtime pay will be provided consistent with applicable laws. In addition to the salary range listed above, total compensation also includes generous equity, performance-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.

About the Team

Security is foundational to OpenAI’s mission of ensuring that artificial general intelligence benefits all of humanity. As OpenAI builds and operates increasingly powerful systems, security helps make that progress durable, trustworthy, and resilient.

The Security team protects OpenAI’s technology, people, and products, but our role goes beyond defense alone. We help enable the infrastructure, research, and product work that powers frontier AI, bringing deep technical judgment and hands-on operational execution to some of the most important systems being built today. Our work is grounded in impact, pragmatism, and preparing for the security challenges that come with increasingly capable technology.

About the Role

We are seeking an experienced and highly technical Data Center Security Engineer to help secure the infrastructure behind OpenAI’s rapidly expanding data center footprint. This is a chance to work on high-consequence systems at the intersection of cybersecurity, critical infrastructure, and advanced AI, where strong technical judgment and careful execution have direct, lasting impact.

In this role, you will operate with substantial agency and ownership alongside a small team of data center security experts, driving security architecture, control validation, and defensive improvements across multiple, diverse environments, with particular emphasis on IT, Enterprise, ICS and Operational Technology (OT) networking. You will help define and raise the security bar for infrastructure programs already in flight while shaping how future deployments are secured from the start.

This role's preferred location is one of our OpenAI offices in San Francisco, Seattle, or New York City and relocation assistance is available. We are also open to considering candidates who are remote.

In this role, you will:

• Design and implement security controls that protect data center infrastructure across a growing global footprint, with particular focus on both OT and IT networking environments.

• Partner closely with a small team of data center security specialists, as well as engineering, operations, and broader security teams, to deliver resilient and practical security outcomes.

• Secure OT and IT networking environments through strong segmentation, access control, monitoring, hardening, and connectivity patterns suited to critical infrastructure.

• Contribute to security architecture and design reviews for data center systems, including OT and IT networking, network segmentation, identity and access management, provisioning workflows, hardware and firmware trust boundaries, and operational safeguards.

• Perform recurring audits, control assessments, and validation activities across OT and IT networking environments to ensure continued compliance against defined controls.

• Drive ongoing evidence collection, gap tracking, and remediation follow-through so control deficiencies are identified quickly and closed durably.

• Help define measurable security standards, control objectives, audit procedures, evidence requirements, and validation mechanisms for infrastructure and facility security programs.

• Support security monitoring, incident response, and post-incident improvement efforts for data center, OT, and IT networking environments.

• Work with suppliers, partners, and internal stakeholders to evaluate and reduce risks associated with third-party hardware, firmware, software, and operational dependencies.

• Continually evolve the security of our data centers alongside changes in adversary activity, infrastructure complexity, and the increasing demands of OpenAI’s systems.

You might thrive in this role if you have:

• 15+ years of experience in security, including meaningful hands-on experience securing large-scale infrastructure, industrial environments, or data center systems.

• Deep expertise securing OT and IT networking environments in critical infrastructure settings, including segmentation strategies, remote access controls, asset visibility, and compensating controls for operational constraints.

• Experience building audit or assurance programs that validate ongoing compliance with defined security controls, especially across OT and IT networking environments, rather than relying on one-time point-in-time reviews.

• Strong cross-functional collaboration skills including the ability to partner effectively with internal and external stakeholders while operating with a high degree of autonomy.

• Strong knowledge of security engineering and operations across network security, IAM and PAM, hardening, provisioning, monitoring, incident response, and secure lifecycle practices.

• Experience protecting hyperscale, colocation, or hybrid infrastructure environments against sophisticated adversaries.

• Familiarity with control and governance frameworks such as NIST, ISO 27001, or SOC 2, and the ability to translate them into concrete technical and operational requirements.

• The ability to operate as a high-ownership individual contributor who influences through technical judgment, collaboration, and execution.

• Clear written and verbal communication skills, including the ability to explain risk, controls, and tradeoffs to both technical and non-technical partners.

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Plaid powers the tools millions of people rely on to live a healthier financial life. We work with thousands of companies like Venmo, SoFi, several of the Fortune 500, and many of the largest banks to make it easy for people to connect their financial accounts to the apps and services they want to use.

Plaid's network covers 12,000 financial institutions across the US, Canada, UK and Europe. Founded in 2013, the company is headquartered in San Francisco with offices in New York, Washington D.C., London and Amsterdam.

Plaid Europe is building Plaid in Europe,the open banking platform that makes international expansion one click away for fintechs who want to scale globally. We are the only transatlantic open banking provider, uniquely positioned to help fintechs scale globally with a single Plaid integration.

Our team localises, scales, and operates the bank connectivity layer that powers payments, underwriting, onboarding, and identity,abstracting fragmented European rails and regulations into a single, reliable platform.

The team owns four core pillars:

• Account-to-Account Payments
• Cash Flow & Income Insights for Credit
• Bank Connectivity Across Europe
• Consumer Experience

This team operates at the intersection of distributed systems, financial infrastructure, and consumer UX. We solve hard problems in payments reliability, data quality, regulatory complexity, and cross-market expansion,enabling fintechs to launch in new countries with minimal additional engineering effort.

We are a high-impact, cross-functional engineering team working closely with US platform teams, GTM, compliance, and operations to make Plaid the default open banking layer for global fintechs operating in Europe.

You will serve as the technical leader for Plaid's Europe engineering team, setting direction across a broad product surface area while staying hands-on in the codebase. You'll partner closely with the Engineering Manager and PM to turn product strategy into executable roadmaps, and maintain a strong connection to US platform teams to keep Europe aligned with company-wide engineering investments.

Responsibilities

• Set technical direction across Europe's product surface area, translating product strategy into clear engineering roadmaps with crisp scoping, sequencing, and tradeoffs.
• Stay hands-on,owning high-leverage projects, spiking and prototyping to de-risk, or going deep on the hardest parts of projects others own, depending on the quarter.
• Own technical excellence for the team,setting and holding a high bar through design reviews, architectural decisions, and code quality.
• Partner closely with the EM and PM to identify opportunities, make tradeoffs, and keep the team focused on the highest-leverage work.
• Maintain a strong connection to US engineering and platform teams, ensuring Europe's requirements shape platform decisions and the team leverages shared infrastructure rather than building in isolation.

Qualifications

• 8+ years of software engineering experience, including operating as a technical lead on a product engineering team.
• Strong programming skills in Go, Python, or similar backend languages.
• Experience operating and scaling high-availability systems (four 9s) in production,understands the reliability and correctness bar required for critical infrastructure.
• Demonstrated track record of effective delegation,has scaled their impact by enabling senior engineers to own technical direction, not by doing everything themselves.
• Strong product engineering instinct,can take a product strategy and translate it into a crisp engineering roadmap with clear scoping, sequencing, and tradeoffs.
• Experience operating and scaling high-availability systems in production.
• [Nice to have] Payments domain experience,has worked in payments infrastructure, processing, or a related domain.
• [Nice to have] Experience working across time zones with distributed engineering teams.
• [Nice to have] Fintech or financial infrastructure experience beyond payments (e.g., credit, lending, identity).
• [Nice to have] Familiarity with open banking APIs and bank connectivity patterns.

Additional Information

Our mission at Plaid is to unlock financial freedom for everyone. To support that mission, we seek to build a diverse team of driven individuals who care deeply about making the financial ecosystem more equitable. We recognize that strong qualifications can come from both prior work experiences and lived experiences. We encourage you to apply to a role even if your experience doesn't fully match the job description. We are always looking for team members that will bring something unique to Plaid!

Plaid is proud to be an equal opportunity employer and values diversity at our company. We do not discriminate based on race, color, national origin, ethnicity, religion or religious belief, sex (including pregnancy, childbirth, or related medical conditions), sexual orientation, gender, gender identity, gender expression, transgender status, sexual stereotypes, age, military or veteran status, disability, or other applicable legally protected characteristics. We also consider qualified applicants with criminal histories, consistent with applicable federal, state, and local laws. Plaid is committed to providing reasonable accommodations for candidates with disabilities in our recruiting process. If you need any assistance with your application or interviews due to a disability, please let us know at accommodations@plaid.com.

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