Engineering Manager, Identity Platform

The role

You will lead a team owning foundational identity services that must be highly reliable, secure, and fast under extreme load. You will set technical strategy, grow the team, and partner across engineering and security to strengthen the platform.

What you will do

• Build, lead, and develop a high-performing engineering team
• Coach and mentor engineers and senior technical leads
• Define and own the technical strategy, roadmap, and execution for core identity systems
• Guide the architecture of distributed systems operating at massive scale
• Partner with Product and Infrastructure teams to support new product needs
• Ensure the team operates effectively and maintains strong engineering rigor
• Establish processes and a culture that enable fast learning and high trust
• Lead the team responsible for the authentication stack and token exchange infrastructure
• Own and improve request validation at the edge for logged-in users
• Oversee systems that enable secure access to user data

Required 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
• Experience managing an infrastructure team
• Experience in hiring, coaching, and developing engineers
• Deep experience building and operating high-scale backend systems
• Broad infrastructure expertise across the stack from hardware and cluster management to services and storage layers

About the company

OpenAI is an AI research and deployment company dedicated to ensuring that general-purpose artificial intelligence benefits all of humanity. They seek to safely deploy AI to the world through their products.