IT Controls Data Engineer

🕒 May 30

🏢🏡 San Francisco – Hybrid

💵 $293k - $385k / year

⏰ Full Time

🟡 Mid-level

🟠 Senior

🚰 Data Engineer

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OpenAI

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201 - 500 employees

Founded 2015

🤖 Artificial Intelligence

☁️ SaaS

🏢 Enterprise

Artificial Intelligence • SaaS • Enterprise

OpenAI is a leading research organization and company dedicated to creating advanced artificial intelligence technology, with a strong emphasis on safety and ethical considerations. OpenAI's mission is to ensure that artificial general intelligence (AGI) benefits all of humanity. The company develops AI products like ChatGPT, which can assist users with tasks ranging from everyday requests to complex enterprise solutions. OpenAI also provides an API platform that integrates its AI models into various applications. The company is focused on innovation in AI and improving data analysis capabilities, while emphasizing safety and ethical governance of their systems.

📋 Description

• 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

• 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

• 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.