Product Engineer, Cyber

We are building the Defense Factory to help enterprises find and fix security vulnerabilities with AI. We build infrastructure that enables AI agents to work in secure, customer-controlled cloud environments, with the context, tools, and controls they need to investigate security findings, carry out approved actions, and verify results.

Our focus is turning AI capabilities into reliable security outcomes, starting with finding and fixing vulnerabilities and expanding into investigation, detection, and response. That means solving challenging problems in cloud environments, orchestration, security, and collaboration, while making the experience straightforward for the people directing and reviewing the work.

We’re a team that values initiative, close relationships with customers, and exceptional engineering craft. We take ownership, learn quickly, and communicate directly and kindly.

We’re hiring backend-focused Product Engineers across our platform and security product teams. You’ll build infrastructure and customer-facing workflows that let developers and AI agents work reliably in parallel.

You’ll work primarily in Go on APIs, complex networking, development environments, and orchestration for long-running tasks. You’ll own outcomes from understanding a user’s problem and choosing an approach through shipping, operating, and improving the solution, working closely with frontend, infrastructure, and security engineers.

* Work directly with customers to build developer and security workflows, from getting a project running to investigating findings, reviewing agent-generated changes, and verifying fixes.

* Build Go services and APIs for provisioning cloud environments, running agents in customer infrastructure, and integrating with source control, CI, and other developer tools.

* Design reliable orchestration for long-running, parallel work, including durable state, retries, cancellation, and recovery.

* Build security into execution workflows through clear permissions, credential handling, isolation, and auditability.

* Own production quality: testing, safe rollouts, observability, performance, and operational reliability.

* Partner with frontend and design colleagues to make complex backend capabilities straightforward to use.

You might thrive in this role if you:

* Have strong Go skills and experience building and operating production backend systems.

* Understand distributed systems, concurrency, and state, and can reason about failures and recovery.

* Have practical experience with Linux, containers, cloud infrastructure, and networking, including routing, DNS, and secure connectivity.

* Can design clear APIs and data models that simplify complex workflows.

* Are product-minded and want to stay close to customers, understand their needs, and own solutions from problem discovery through launch and iteration.

* Communicate technical decisions clearly and work effectively across disciplines and locations.

Experience building on AWS, GCP, or Azure is a plus. Depth in one or more of developer platforms, workflow engines, Kubernetes, networking, sandboxing, identity systems, security products, or AI-agent workflows would be useful; we don’t expect expertise across all of them. Frontend experience is welcome but not required.

* $255K – $445K • 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.

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