Engineering Manager, Identity & Access Platform

About The Team

Security is at the foundation of OpenAI's mission to ensure that artificial general intelligence benefits all of humanity. The Identity Infrastructure Engineering team sits at the core of this effort, designing and building the identity and access management solutions that protect model weights, customer data, and critical systems across multiple cloud environments. The team partners across OpenAI, including Applied Engineering, Research, IT, Security, Infrastructure, and Engineering, to provide secure and scalable platforms for identity, access management, permissioning, orchestration, and safe AI research.

About The Role

We’re looking for an engineering leader to lead Identity Infrastructure Engineering, the team building the systems that govern and scale access across OpenAI’s research, engineering, and internal platforms. This role sits at the center of cloud infrastructure, identity, software engineering, and security-critical operations. You’ll lead engineers building control planes, policy systems, workload and agent authorization patterns, infrastructure-as-code, and operational foundations that help OpenAI move quickly while keeping access reliable, auditable, least-privileged, and safe under failure.

The ideal candidate has led teams responsible for large-scale, mission-critical infrastructure. They can go deep into code and architecture when needed, while giving engineers and technical leads the clarity and ownership to do their best work. They set technical direction, grow strong teams, make durable architecture decisions, and turn ambiguous 0-to-1 problems into platforms OpenAI can trust and build on for years.

In This Role, You Will Build and lead a high-performing Identity Infrastructure team, going deep enough technically to set direction while empowering the team to own delivery.

Requirements

• 10+ years building and developing engineering teams that own large scale platforms.
• Experience owning security critical production systems where reliability, least privilege, auditability, and operational rigor are essential.
• Deep judgment across cloud infrastructure, IAM, authentication, authorization, workload identity, privileged access, and policy enforcement.
• Hands-on technical depth to go into code and architecture, pressure-test designs, and guide tradeoffs across correctness, performance, scale, and operability.
• Track record turning complex infrastructure problems into adopted platforms across Engineering, Security, Research, and internal teams.
• A high bar for engineering quality, operational discipline, and long-term ownership.

Qualifications

• Experience leading engineering teams in a mission-critical environment.
• Strong understanding of identity and access management principles and practices.
• Knowledge of cloud infrastructure and security best practices.
• Experience with policy enforcement and authorization mechanisms.
• Ability to work effectively in a cross-functional team environment.
• Excellent communication and leadership skills.

Skills

• Leadership and management skills.
• Technical expertise in cloud infrastructure, IAM, authentication, authorization, workload identity, and policy enforcement.
• Experience with policy systems, workload and agent authorization patterns, and infrastructure-as-code.
• Strong problem-solving and analytical skills.
• Experience with operational foundations and reliability goals.

Benefits

OpenAI offers a competitive compensation range of $293K - $490K, along with comprehensive benefits including health insurance, retirement plans, and paid time off. We also provide opportunities for professional development and growth within the organization.

Pay

$293K - $490K

Schedule

N/A

Benefits

N/A

Skills

• Leadership and management skills.
• Technical expertise in cloud infrastructure, IAM, authentication, authorization, workload identity, and policy enforcement.
• Experience with policy systems, workload and agent authorization patterns, and infrastructure-as-code.
• Strong problem-solving and analytical skills.
• Experience with operational foundations and reliability goals.

Qualifications

• Experience leading engineering teams in a mission-critical environment.
• Strong understanding of identity and access management principles and practices.
• Knowledge of cloud infrastructure and security best practices.
• Experience with policy enforcement and authorization mechanisms.
• Ability to work effectively in a cross-functional team environment.
• Excellent communication and leadership skills.

Requirements

• 10+ years building and developing engineering teams that own large scale platforms.
• Experience owning security critical production systems where reliability, least privilege, auditability, and operational rigor are essential.
• Deep judgment across cloud infrastructure, IAM, authentication, authorization, workload identity, privileged access, and policy enforcement.
• Hands-on technical depth to go into code and architecture, pressure-test designs, and guide tradeoffs across correctness, performance, scale, and operability.
• Track record turning complex infrastructure problems into adopted platforms across Engineering, Security, Research, and internal teams.
• A high bar for engineering quality, operational discipline, and long-term ownership.

OpenAI

OpenAI is an AI research and deployment company dedicated to ensuring that general-purpose artificial intelligence benefits all of humanity. We push the boundaries of the capabilities of AI systems and seek to safely deploy them to the world through our products. AI is an extremely powerful tool that must be created with safety and human needs at its core, and to achieve our mission, we must encompass and value the many different perspectives, voices, and experiences that form the full spectrum of humanity. We are an equal opportunity employer, and we do not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, color, national origin, sex, sexual orientation, age, veteran status, disability, genetic information, or other applicable legally protected characteristic. For additional information, please see OpenAI’s Affirmative Action and Equal Employment Opportunity Policy Statement.

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