Engineering Manager, Identity Platform
OpenAI
Engineering Manager, Identity Platform is a still-open role at OpenAI on Jobrow. Location: Hybrid · San Francisco · California · United States. Listed pay: $293k–$385k. Sourced from the company's public Ashby board. First seen 17 days ago; last confirmed 9 days ago. Apply on the employer ATS — Jobrow is not the employer.
- Pay
- $293k–$385k
- Workplace
- Hybrid
- Location
- San Francisco · California · United States
- First seen
- 17 days ago
- Last seen
- 9 days ago
- Board
- Ashby
About this role
About the Team Identity is the foundation of trust in an AI-powered world.
- Function: Machine learning
- Seniority: manager
Location & pay
Hybrid · San Francisco · California · United States Listed pay on Jobrow: $293k–$385k.
Source
Jobrow reads the public Ashby board for OpenAI. First seen 17 days ago; last seen 9 days ago. We are not the employer — apply only on the company ATS.
Posting
About the Team Identity is the foundation of trust in an AI-powered world. 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. 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. 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. About the Role 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. You’ll set direction, grow and support the team, and partner closely across engineering and security to strengthen the platform that enables trusted access to OpenAI products. In this role, you will: - 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. You might thrive in this role if you: - Have 10+ years of experience building, scaling, and operating distrib
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