OpenAI · 20 hours ago
Engineering Manager, Identity Infrastructure
San Francisco, CA
Full-time
Hybrid
Director/Executive
$405K/yr - $490K/yr
10+ years expOpenAI is an AI research and deployment company dedicated to ensuring that general-purpose artificial intelligence benefits all of humanity. As an Engineering Manager for Identity Infrastructure, you will lead a team responsible for foundational identity services that are reliable, secure, and fast under extreme load, while collaborating closely with engineering and security teams.
Agentic AIArtificial Intelligence (AI)Foundational AIGenerative AIMachine LearningNatural Language ProcessingSaaS
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 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
Qualification
Required
3+ years of experience managing high-performance engineering teams in fast-paced, rapidly shifting environments
10+ years of experience building, scaling, and operating distributed systems at large scale
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
Have experience managing an infrastructure team and are effective at hiring, coaching, and developing engineers while maintaining strong operational excellence
Have deep experience building and operating high-scale backend systems, with a track record of improving reliability, latency, and security in production
Bring broad infrastructure expertise across the stack—from hardware and cluster management to services and storage layers
Benefits
Relocation assistance
Company
OpenAI
OpenAI is an AI research and deployment company that develops advanced AI models, including ChatGPT. It is a sub-organization of OpenAI Foundation.
201-500 employees
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Funding
Current Stage
Growth StageTotal Funding
$79BKey Investors
The Walt Disney CompanySoftBankThrive Capital
2025-12-11Corporate Round· $1B
2025-10-02Secondary Market· $6.6B
2025-03-31Series Unknown· $40B
Leadership Team
Fidji Simo
CEO, Applications
Sam Altman
CEO & Co-Founder
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