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Engineering Manager, Client Platform Engineering

OpenAI· Security
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Hybrid (San Francisco), Hybrid (New York City), Hybrid (Seattle)Full-timePosted 1mo ago

About the role

Engineering Manager for OpenAI’s Client Platform Engineering (CPE) team, leading cross-platform client foundation services (macOS, Windows, iOS, Android, Linux) with a focus on security, reliability, and developer experience at scale.

Responsibilities

  • Lead and develop a high-performing engineering team; hire thoughtfully, coach engineers, create clarity, and foster an inclusive, high-accountability culture that pushes perceived limits.
  • Define and execute a multi-year client-platform strategy and roadmap across macOS, Windows, iOS, Android, and Linux, including how Codex and agents can reshape employee computing.
  • Provide technical direction for endpoint posture, device trust, application delivery, device onboarding, updates, fleet telemetry, workflow orchestration, and employee-facing remediation.
  • Guide architecture and engineering tradeoffs across first-party services, open-source tooling, SaaS platforms, IaC/GitOps, CI/CD, and cloud infrastructure.
  • Establish clear goals, ownership, planning, design reviews, and execution rhythms that let the team move quickly without sacrificing quality.
  • Raise the bar for reliability and evidence-backed security through observability, drift detection, staged rollouts, release gates, rollback paths, incident learning, runbooks, and healthy operational ownership.
  • Partner with Security, IT, Research, Applied, Product, and specialized engineering teams to align priorities and land company-wide changes, dogfood OpenAI products in real employee workflows, and continuously improve internal platforms.
  • Balance strong security and compliance controls with developer velocity, employee experience, and operational simplicity.
  • Use adoption, reliability, evidence-backed security posture, data freshness, employee experience, workflow completion, friction, agent effectiveness, and operational-load metrics to steer investment and communicate impact.
  • Partner with IT and Security teams to compound CPE’s impact across employee experience, security posture, and operational scale.

Qualifications

  • Built and led teams that owned secure, reliable, mission critical services and infrastructure at scale, from strategy through production operations.
  • Delivered internal platforms, tooling, and services that materially improved reliability, security, and employee experience.
  • Made sound software and infrastructure engineering decisions at scale. Deep endpoint expertise is strongly preferred.
  • Raised production readiness through direct technical review of architecture, automation, code, IaC/GitOps, CI/CD, observability, and operational tradeoffs.
  • Operated infrastructure with material security or identity risk through staged rollouts, incidents, and decisions that balanced risk, compliance, and employee or developer experience.
  • Committed to joining the team’s engineering on call rotation after ramp up and using firsthand operational context to improve reliability and reduce toil.
  • Built inclusive teams that do excellent work, communicated with clarity and candor, and influenced partners across Security, IT, and Product/Engineering.
  • Deep experience with client-platform tool ecosystems such as Jamf, Intune, Android Enterprise, FleetDM/osquery, Munki/AutoPkg, or Linux configuration management.
  • Experience building internal platforms or services for app delivery, device posture/trust, onboarding, notifications, workflow orchestration, or fleet telemetry.
  • Familiarity with cloud infrastructure, Terraform, Kubernetes/containers, service orchestration, and large-scale observability.
  • Experience partnering with security, compliance, or privacy teams in high-assurance environments.
  • Experience supporting research, developer, robotics, hardware-lab, or other specialized computing environments.
  • A record of contributing to open-source tooling, engineering communities, or cross-company technical standards.

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
  • Mental health and wellness support
  • Employer-paid basic life and disability coverage
  • Annual learning and development stipend
  • Daily meals in offices, and meal delivery credits as eligible
  • Relocation support for eligible employees
  • Additional taxable fringe benefits, such as charitable donation matching and wellness stipends
Last updated Sep 10, 2026. Interested? Apply on the company site.

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