Head of Identity Platform Engineering

Openai; United States; Remote; USD 260,000 - 360,000; Full time

Job summary

OpenAI is seeking an Engineering Manager for the Identity Platform to lead a team that delivers foundational identity services with reliability, security, and speed under heavy load.

You will define the strategy, grow the team, and partner across engineering and security to strengthen access to company products. The role emphasizes leadership, architectural excellence, and scalable, secure systems.

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 environments.
• Strong people leadership, coaching, and ability to help engineers achieve peak performance.
• Excellent communication, holistic thinking, and decision-making grounded in user needs and long-term sustainability.

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 the company’s core identity systems.
• Guide the architecture of distributed systems operating at massive scale with high reliability, privacy, and performance requirements.
• Partner with Product and Infrastructure teams to support new product needs and uphold high system standards.
• Ensure the team operates effectively, maintains engineering rigor, and 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 and strong security.
• Own and improve request validation at the edge for logged-in users, delivering 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 users.

Skills

Distributed systems

People leadership

Technical strategy

Security mindset

High-scale backend

Job description

OpenAI is seeking an Engineering Manager for the Identity Platform to lead a team that delivers foundational identity services with reliability, security, and speed under heavy load.

You will define the strategy, grow the team, and partner across engineering and security to strengthen access to company products. The role emphasizes leadership, architectural excellence, and scalable, secure systems.