Lead, Identity Platform Engineering

OpenAI, Inc.; San Francisco (CA); Presencial; USD 210 000 - 320 000; Tempo integral

Resumo da oferta

OpenAI is seeking an Engineering Manager for the Identity Platform to lead a team responsible for highly reliable, secure identity services at scale. You will set direction, grow the team, and partner with security to enable trusted access to OpenAI products.

The role emphasizes architecture for massive-scale distributed systems, collaboration with Product and Infrastructure, and delivering high availability with strong security and low latency.

Qualificações

• 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.
• Care deeply about people leadership, coaching, and helping engineers achieve peak performance.
• Communicate clearly, think holistically, and make decisions grounded in both user needs and long-term sustainability.

Responsabilidades

• Build, lead, and develop a high-performing engineering team.
• 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.

Conhecimentos

Distributed systems

People leadership

Engineering management

System design

Performance & reliability

Formação académica

Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or related field

Descrição da oferta de emprego

OpenAI is seeking an Engineering Manager for the Identity Platform to lead a team responsible for highly reliable, secure identity services at scale. You will set direction, grow the team, and partner with security to enable trusted access to OpenAI products.

The role emphasizes architecture for massive-scale distributed systems, collaboration with Product and Infrastructure, and delivering high availability with strong security and low latency.