OpenAI
Engineering Manager, Identity Platform
San Francisco · Senior · Contract
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About the role
- Identity is the foundation of trust in an AI-powered world.
- Without strong identity, context stays locked away or exposed.
- With it, AI becomes safe, personal, and truly useful, empowering users while keeping control firmly in their hands.
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.
- 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.
- 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.
- Have experience managing an infrastructure team and are effective at hiring, coaching, and developing engineers while maintaining strong operational excellence.
- Have deep experience building and operating high-scale backend systems, with a track record of improving reliability, latency, and security in production.
Requirements
- Have 10+ years of experience building, scaling, and operating distributed systems at large scale.
- Have 3+ years of experience managing high-performance engineering teams in fast-paced, rapidly shifting environments.
- As an Engineering Manager, Identity Platform you will lead a team owning foundational identity services that must be highly reliable, secure, and fast under extreme load.
Benefits
- Establish processes and a culture that enable fast learning, high trust, and responsible innovation.
Company info
- As people build a rich personal and organizational context in ChatGPT, they need systems that protect it, remember it, and let them share it securely across apps and agents.
- Our team builds the trusted OpenAI account layer that connects people, enterprises, developers, and agents to OpenAI apps and the broader AI ecosystem.
- Our systems are the front door to OpenAI-held to an exceptionally high bar for availability, security, and latency-and are depended on by many internal teams.
- Oversee systems that enable secure access to user data, improving scalability, reliability, and access patterns for internal consumers across the company.
- OpenAI is an AI research and deployment company dedicated to ensuring that general-purpose artificial intelligence benefits all of humanity.
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