About the job
About Our Team
At OpenAI, our Security organization is dedicated to fostering safe and responsible innovation on a global scale. As our systems, infrastructure, and research capabilities expand, we are committed to investing in top-tier security measures that protect our people, products, and users while maintaining our momentum in progress.
Our team is focused on safeguarding OpenAI’s environments by developing sophisticated detection systems, enhancing real-time response capabilities, scaling telemetry and logging infrastructure, and providing actionable threat intelligence to proactively counter adversaries.
About the Role
We are on the lookout for a Global Detection and Response Lead who will take ownership of and enhance OpenAI’s cybersecurity detection and response operations. In this pivotal role, you will establish the strategy and oversee the execution of security monitoring, incident response, recovery, and post-incident enhancements across our global infrastructure.
As a hands-on leader with substantial technical credibility and acute operational instincts, you will build and mentor high-performing teams, collaborate closely with Infrastructure, Research, Product Security, Enterprise Security, IT, and Engineering to ensure that detection and response capabilities are integrated into the systems that drive OpenAI.
This role demands strategic thinking combined with practical leadership skills, requiring deep technical expertise, operational discipline, and the ability to cultivate high-performing teams in a dynamic environment.
Key Responsibilities:
Lead global detection and response operations, ensuring continuous monitoring, triage, investigation, containment, and remediation of security incidents across diverse networks and infrastructures.
Mentor and manage several teams of senior engineers focused on observability, detection and response, and threat intelligence, strategically expanding these functions as OpenAI’s computational capacity and platform aspirations grow.
Ensure exceptional operational readiness through management of incident response playbooks, on-call procedures, escalation protocols, and ongoing enhancements to response efficacy and agility.
Enhance detection effectiveness by collaborating with engineering teams to ensure essential telemetry is accessible, reliable, and actionable across cloud, corporate, and production environments.
Work collaboratively across all departments to assess and address emerging security challenges and risks.

