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Engineering Manager, Identity Platform

OpenAI· Applied AI
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Hybrid (San Francisco)Full-timePosted 5d ago

About the role

Engineering Manager leading a team that builds foundational identity services, focusing on reliability, security, and performance at scale for OpenAI’s identity platform.

Responsibilities

  • Build, lead, and develop a high-performing engineering team. Coach and mentor engineers and senior technical leads to increase their impact and support their growth.
  • Define and own the technical strategy, roadmap, and execution for OpenAI’s core identity systems.
  • Guide the architecture of distributed systems operating at massive scale, with high requirements for reliability, privacy, and performance.
  • Partner closely with Product and Infrastructure teams to support new product needs and uphold high system standards.
  • Ensure the team operates effectively, maintains strong engineering rigor, and consistently delivers against ambitious goals.
  • Establish processes and a culture that enable fast learning, high trust, and responsible innovation.
  • Lead the team responsible for the authentication stack and token exchange infrastructure, ensuring high availability, strong security posture, and low-latency performance.
  • Own and improve request validation at the edge for logged-in users, delivering extremely high reliability and fast validation under high throughput.
  • Oversee systems that enable secure access to user data, improving scalability, reliability, and access patterns for internal consumers across the company.

Qualifications

  • 10+ years of experience building, scaling, and operating distributed systems at large scale.
  • 3+ years of experience managing high-performance engineering teams in fast-paced, rapidly shifting environments.
  • Care deeply about people leadership, coaching, and helping engineers achieve peak performance.
  • Communicate clearly, think holistically, and make decisions grounded in both user needs and long-term sustainability.
  • Experience managing an infrastructure team and effective at hiring, coaching, and developing engineers while maintaining strong operational excellence.
  • Deep experience building and operating high-scale backend systems, with a track record of improving reliability, latency, and security in production.
  • Broad infrastructure expertise across the stack—from hardware and cluster management to services and storage layers.

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 Oct 22, 2026. Interested? Apply on the company site.

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