Software Engineer, Codex - Enterprise Controls

Details

With Codex, OpenAI is building an AI software engineer that people can pair with, delegate to, or ask to take on future tasks proactively. The Codex team builds AI systems that can write code, reason about software, and act as intelligent agents for developers and non-developers. The Codex Enterprise Controls team develops the ecosystem, governance, and enterprise capabilities that help organizations safely deploy Codex while protecting sensitive code, data, and internal knowledge.

This role focuses on building the enterprise control plane that makes Codex secure, governable, and trustworthy at scale. You will design and operate backend systems that give enterprise administrators visibility and control over how Codex is used across their organizations, including identity, access, encryption, policy enforcement, auditability, and administration.

Responsibilities

• Build backend systems that protect enterprise customer data, including encryption, key management, access controls, data isolation, retention controls, and secure data-handling patterns.
• Design and operate the Codex enterprise control plane, enabling administrators to configure, enforce, and audit how Codex is used across users, teams, projects, and environments.
• Build policy and governance systems that allow enterprises to enable or disable specific Codex capabilities, define organizational constraints, and safely roll out AI-powered workflows.
• Develop reliable, observable, and scalable services across identity, authorization, configuration, audit logging, compliance, and enterprise administration.
• Partner with product, security, infrastructure, go-to-market, and customer-facing teams to translate complex enterprise requirements into durable product and platform capabilities.
• Help define enterprise-grade standards for AI software engineering systems as Codex becomes a trusted teammate within large organizations.
• Own systems end to end, from architecture and implementation through production operations, with a focus on security, reliability, quality, and velocity.

Requirements

• Strong backend software engineering fundamentals and experience building production-grade distributed systems.
• Proficiency in one or more backend languages, such as Python, Go, Rust, Java, or C++.
• Experience with security, identity, authorization, encryption, key management, policy systems, or enterprise governance.
• Understanding of enterprise foundations such as SSO, SAML, OIDC, SCIM, RBAC, audit logging, compliance controls, and data governance.
• Interest in building foundational platform capabilities that support multiple product surfaces and customer workflows.
• Comfort working across ambiguous technical and product requirements, particularly in fast-moving 0-to-1 environments.
• Strong focus on reliability, security, observability, and customer trust.

Benefits

• Equity, performance-related bonuses for eligible employees, and comprehensive benefits.
• Medical, dental, and vision insurance, with employer contributions to Health Savings Accounts.
• Pre-tax accounts for health and dependent-care expenses, parking, and transit.
• 401(k) retirement plan with employer match.
• Paid parental, medical, and caregiver leave.
• Paid time off, company holidays, office closures, and paid sick or safe time.
• Mental health and wellness support.
• Employer-paid basic life and disability coverage.
• Annual learning and development stipend.
• Daily office meals and eligible meal-delivery credits.
• Relocation support for eligible employees.