IT Controls Data Engineer

OpenAI

IT Controls Data Engineer building data infrastructure to support audit readiness and IT controls at OpenAI. Collaborating across multiple departments to develop robust data pipelines and monitoring logic.

Posted 5/30/2026full-timeSan Francisco • California • 🇺🇸 United StatesMid-LevelSenior💰 $293,000 - $385,000 per yearWebsite

Tech Stack

Tools & technologies

AWSAzureCloudGoogle Cloud PlatformPythonSQL

About the role

Key responsibilities & impact

Building reliable data pipelines, models, and datasets for IT controls, including access, identity, configuration, change, ticketing, exception, and evidence data.
Creating data quality, lineage, reconciliation, and completeness checks that make control data defensible for SOX and other audit use cases.
Designing automated evidence generation workflows that produce complete, accurate, and repeatable audit populations, exports, dashboards, and control artifacts.
Developing control monitoring logic to detect drift, missing evidence, stale access, direct system changes, overdue activity, and other control exceptions.
Partnering with Security, IT, Infrastructure, Engineering, Risk Management, and system owners to understand source systems, validate data, and improve automation reliability.
Translating technical system behavior, data flows, access models, and validation results into clear explanations for auditors, control owners, and technical stakeholders.

Requirements

What you’ll need

Strong data engineering, analytics engineering, or software/data systems experience, including building reliable datasets, pipelines, queries, dashboards, or automated reporting workflows.
Hands-on SQL experience and proficiency with at least one scripting or programming language such as Python.
Experience working with enterprise system data, such as identity platforms, HR systems, ticketing systems, cloud environments, source control systems, SaaS applications, or audit/compliance tooling.
Strong understanding of data modeling, lineage, completeness, accuracy, reconciliation, validation, observability, and repeatability.
Ability to reason through messy source-system data, inconsistent identifiers, nested groups, stale records, missing owners, direct assignments, and downstream application drift.
Experience supporting security, IT controls, SOX, audit readiness, risk, compliance, or regulated technology environments.
Ability to explain technical systems, data flows, and control logic clearly to both engineering and audit stakeholders.
Strong ownership, judgment, and attention to detail in high-stakes, time-sensitive environments.
Nice to have: Experience with Entra ID, Workday, GitHub, Databricks, Salesforce, or similar platforms.
Nice to have: Experience with cloud infrastructure environments such as Azure, AWS, or GCP.

Benefits

Comp & perks

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.

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Hard Skills & Tools

data engineeringanalytics engineeringSQLPythondata modelingdata lineagedata reconciliationdata validationdata observabilityautomated reporting workflows

Soft Skills

attention to detailjudgmentownershipcommunicationproblem-solving