Data Center Security Engineer

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U.S. role benchmark (BLS OEWS)

$111,944 U.S. median for this role

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+13.7% - Much faster than average

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Source: U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics, OEWS, May 2024 and Employment Projections, 2024-2034.

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About this role

Data Center Security Engineer San Francisco, California, United States, Seattle, New York City, Remote - US 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

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