Engineering Manager, Identity & Access Platform

OpenAI
San Francisco
Workplace: HybridFull timeUSD 293,000 - 490,000 annuallyFunction: Software EngineeringExperience: 10+ yearsSkills: ["Identity","Cloud","Security","Infrastructure as Code","Policy enforcement"]

Lead the Identity Infrastructure Engineering team and define the strategy for an identity platform that governs access across OpenAI’s research, engineering, and internal systems. Build scalable, policy-driven authorization and access management foundational to cloud infrastructure, with strong emphasis on reliability, auditability, and least-privilege access.

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OpenAI
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Engineering Manager, Identity & Access Platform

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Job Summary

Lead the Identity Infrastructure Engineering team and define the strategy for an identity platform that governs access across OpenAI’s research, engineering, and internal systems. Build scalable, policy-driven authorization and access management foundational to cloud infrastructure, with strong emphasis on reliability, auditability, and least-privilege access.
Location: San Francisco
Workplace: Hybrid
Employment Type: Full time
Job Function: Software Engineering
Seniority: Manager level

Key Responsibilities

  • •Build and lead a high-performing Identity Infrastructure team, going deep enough technically to set direction while empowering the team to own delivery.
  • •Define the strategy for identity platform as the policy plane for access across people, agents, workloads, services, clouds, and internal systems.
  • •Scale Access Manager for evolving human and agent lifecycles, making routine access automatic and sensitive access contextual, time-bound, and accountable.
  • •Build the access graph and resource catalog that make access decisions explainable, risk-aware, and grounded in ownership, sensitivity, environment, and usage.
  • •Replace broad standing privilege with risk-tiered access, so routine work stays fast, privileged access is narrow and observable, and break-glass is exceptional.

Pay and Benefits

Salary: USD 293,000 - 490,000 annually
Equity and Bonus:Equity
Perks:Equity

Key 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.
Experience:10+ yearsSecurityIdentityCloudInfrastructurePlatform
Skills:IdentityCloudSecurityInfrastructure as CodePolicy enforcement
Tech Stack:IAMCloudInfrastructure-as-codeAuditAuthorization

Company Brief

OpenAI
Develops and deploys advanced generative AI models (including ChatGPT and DALL·E) and AI infrastructure, providing APIs and consumer products to accelerate safe AGI for broad benefit.
Industry: AI & Machine Learning
Company Size: Enterprise (1,001+ employees)
Revenue: USD 1B+
Growth: Scaleup
Valuation: Hectocorn (USD 100B+)
Funding: Series E+
Headquarters: San Francisco, United States
Founded: 2015
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Glassdoor: 4.4
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