OpenAI
Engineering Manager, Identity Platform
$293K–$385K
San Francisco · Hybrid · Manager · Full-time · Posted Oct 8, 2026
- Experience
- 10+ years building, scaling, and operating distributed systems; 3+ years managing engineering teams.
About the job
Leads the team and technical direction for OpenAI’s identity platform, including authentication, token exchange, edge request validation, and secure access to user data.
What you'll do
- Build, coach, and develop the engineering team; set its strategy, roadmap, and execution.
- Guide large-scale distributed systems and ensure reliability, security, privacy, and performance.
- Lead authentication, token exchange, edge validation, and internal user-data access systems.
What they ask for
- 10+ years of experience building, scaling, and operating distributed systems at large scale.
- 3+ years of experience managing high-performance engineering teams.
- Experience managing an infrastructure team, including hiring, coaching, and developing engineers.
- Deep experience operating high-scale backend systems and improving production reliability, latency, and security.
Nice to have
- Broad infrastructure expertise across hardware, cluster management, services, and storage layers.
Pay
$293K – $385K USD base salary
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