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Windows Security Engineer
Company | OpenAI |
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Location | San Francisco, CA, USA |
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Salary | $325000 – $405000 |
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Type | Full-Time |
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Degrees | |
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Experience Level | Senior, Expert or higher |
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Requirements
- 5+ years experience and expert knowledge with Windows internals, configuration management, security hardening, and advanced security features.
- Expert-level security experience in protecting and managing Microsoft Active Directory and Azure Active Directory, including Conditional Access Policies.
- Hands-on experience with large-scale Windows fleet administration including device provisioning, management, and maintenance.
- Credential protection methods (Credential Guard, LSASS isolation, virtualization-based security)
- Proficiency with deploying and managing endpoint baselines, security solutions (e.g. management frameworks, EDR tools), and event log collection (e.g., Windows Event Forwarding or similar).
- Experience managing configuration as code.
- Experience with public cloud service providers (Microsoft Azure preferred).
- Proficiency with Powershell and scripting languages (e.g. Bash, Python, or similar).
- Deep knowledge of modern adversary tactics, techniques, and procedures, and experience with threat modeling.
- The ability to empathize and collaborate with colleagues, independently manage and run projects, and prioritize efforts for risk reduction.
Responsibilities
- Lead the strategy and implementation of the security stack for Windows across our fleet, including developer systems, Azure Virtual Desktops, servers, and specialized employee systems.
- Lead threat-modeling initiatives to continuously improve the security of the Windows platform across OpenAI, including cloud-native, hybrid, and on-premises environments.
- Closely collaborate with OpenAI’s Windows-facing product teams to ensure security best practices are baked into both developer systems and the software they produce.
- Implement the strongest controls available in the Windows ecosystem, including passwordless authentication, attack surface reduction (e.g., application allowlisting), code integrity, and virtualization-based security.
- Influence security for our overall authentication and authorization strategy by implementing Azure conditional access policies, Intune policies, and improving the security of native Azure services.
- Ensure the continuous health and sufficiency of security telemetry from and alert coverage for our Windows fleet.
- Improve employee experience through operating system, process, and performance improvements.
- Research adversary tradecraft and implement Windows security detections to protect OpenAI, its users, and its technology.
Preferred Qualifications
- Experience with public cloud service providers (Microsoft Azure preferred).