SlipstreamJobs tracks this role from the company's public career site. Apply directly on the employer's site.
OpenAI's Application Engineering team is seeking a Staff Software Engineer to shape the foundation enabling teams to build agents with secure access to context and capabilities they need. This is a hands-on engineering role with broad organizational impact as agents support more employee workflows.
You will own the technical strategy and architecture that enables teams to build, connect, and deploy agents quickly and safely, using Slack as the primary implementation surface. You'll design and build secure, reliable services that give agents permission-aware access to context, tools, and actions across Slack, internal systems, identity platforms, and enterprise applications.
Key responsibilities include:
- Owning technical strategy and architecture for agent development, connectivity, and deployment
- Designing secure, reliable services with permission-aware access across multiple platforms
- Establishing scalable patterns for connectivity, context retrieval, authorization, and action execution
- Developing reusable SDKs, connectors, templates, and deployment patterns
- Building policy-aware automation and lifecycle management for agents and integrations
- Implementing governance and observability to enforce least privilege and protect boundaries
- Setting operational standards for reliability, auditability, and incident response
- Partnering across IT, Security, Privacy, Legal, and product teams
Ideal candidates have deep hands-on software engineering experience building and operating production systems at scale, strong backend and distributed-systems fundamentals, experience building developer platforms or shared services, and familiarity with enterprise platform integrations. Experience with Slack Enterprise Grid, agent platforms, AI-assisted workflows, or agent interoperability protocols like MCP is a plus.
