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Global Detection and Response Lead

OpenAI · San Francisco

$347k - $490k/yrRemoteMid levelEngineeringSecuritySecurityPosted 5 months ago

About this role

About the Team OpenAI’s Security organization exists to enable safe, responsible innovation at scale. As our systems, infrastructure, and research footprint grow, we invest deeply in world-class security capabilities that protect our people, products, and users without slowing progress. This organization safeguards OpenAI’s environments by building advanced detection systems, driving real-time response capabilities, scaling telemetry and logging infrastructure, and delivering actionable threat intelligence to stay ahead of adversaries. About the Role We are seeking a Global Detection and Response Lead to own and scale OpenAI’s cybersecurity detection and response operations. In this role, you will set the strategy and drive execution for security monitoring, incident response, recovery, and post-incident improvements across our global infrastructure. You will be a hands-on leader with deep technical credibility and strong operational instincts. You will build and mentor high-performing teams, partner closely with Infrastructure, Research, Product Security, Enterprise Security, IT, and Engineering, and ensure that detection and response capabilities are embedded by design into the systems that power OpenAI. This is a strategic and practical leadership role requiring deep technical credibility, operational rigor, and the ability to build high-performing teams in a fast-moving environment. In this role, you will: - Oversee global detection and response operations, including continuous monitoring, triage, investigation, containment, and remediation of security events across a diverse set of networks and infrastructure. - Lead, mentor, and directly manage several small teams of senior engineers across observability, detection and response, and threat intelligence. Hire and scale these functions deliberately and proportionately as OpenAI’s compute footprint and platform ambitions grow. - Ensure world-class operational rigor and readiness through management of incident pla

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About OpenAI

OpenAI is an AI research and deployment company dedicated to ensuring that general-purpose artificial intelligence benefits all of humanity. AI is an extremely powerful tool that must be created with safety and human needs at its core. OpenAI is dedicated to putting that alignment of interests first - ahead of profit. To achieve our mission, we must encompass and value the many different perspectives, voices, and experiences that form the full spectrum of humanity. Our investment in diversity, equity, and inclusion is ongoing, executed through a wide range of initiatives, and championed and supported by leadership. At OpenAI, we believe artificial intelligence has the potential to help people solve immense global challenges, and we want the upside of AI to be widely shared. Join us in shaping the future of technology.

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