Engineering Manager, Client Platform Engineering

OpenAI
San Francisco, New York, Seattle
Workplace: HybridFull timeUSD 401,000 - 445,000 annuallyFunction: DevOps, Cloud & InfrastructureSkills: ["People leadership","Coaching","Inclusiveness","Communication","Technical judgment"]

Lead a team that delivers OpenAI’s cross-platform client foundation, turning ambiguous needs into secure, reliable, low-friction outcomes. Own engineering strategy, roadmap, and technical direction across macOS, Windows, iOS, Android, and Linux—from endpoint posture and device trust to onboarding, updates, telemetry, and workflow orchestration. Partner across Security, IT, Research, Applied, Product, and engineering to raise reliability and evidence-backed security while improving employee experience.

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OpenAI
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Engineering Manager, Client Platform Engineering

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Job Summary

Lead a team that delivers OpenAI’s cross-platform client foundation, turning ambiguous needs into secure, reliable, low-friction outcomes. Own engineering strategy, roadmap, and technical direction across macOS, Windows, iOS, Android, and Linux—from endpoint posture and device trust to onboarding, updates, telemetry, and workflow orchestration. Partner across Security, IT, Research, Applied, Product, and engineering to raise reliability and evidence-backed security while improving employee experience.
Location: San Francisco, New York, Seattle
Workplace: Hybrid
Employment Type: Full time
Job Function: DevOps, Cloud & Infrastructure
Seniority: Manager level

Key Responsibilities

  • •Lead and develop a high-performing engineering team, including hiring, coaching, and fostering an inclusive, high-accountability culture.
  • •Define and execute a multi-year client-platform strategy and roadmap across macOS, Windows, iOS, Android, and Linux, including how Codex and agents reshape employee computing.
  • •Provide technical direction for endpoint posture, device trust, application delivery, device onboarding, updates, fleet telemetry, workflow orchestration, and employee-facing remediation.
  • •Guide architecture and engineering tradeoffs across first-party services, open-source tooling, SaaS platforms, IaC/GitOps, CI/CD, and cloud infrastructure.
  • •Establish execution rhythms and measurable reliability/security goals using observability, drift detection, staged rollouts, release gates, rollbacks, incident learning, and runbooks.

Pay and Benefits

Salary: USD 401,000 - 445,000 annually
Perks:Relocation

Key Requirements

  • •Built and led teams owning secure, reliable, mission-critical services and infrastructure at scale, from strategy through production operations.
  • •Delivered internal platforms, tooling, and services that materially improved reliability, security, and employee experience.
  • •Made sound software and infrastructure engineering decisions at scale, with deep endpoint expertise preferred.
  • •Raised production readiness through direct technical review of architecture, automation, code, IaC/GitOps, CI/CD, observability, and operational tradeoffs.
  • •Operated infrastructure with material security or identity risk using staged rollouts, incidents, and decisions that balanced risk, compliance, and employee/developer experience.
Experience:InfrastructureSecurityObservabilityInternal platformsEndpoint/device managementOpen-sourceCloud
Skills:People leadershipCoachingInclusivenessCommunicationTechnical judgment
Tech Stack:MacOSWindowsIOSAndroidLinuxCodexAgentsJamfIntuneAndroid EnterpriseFleetDMOsqueryMunkiAutoPkgTerraformKubernetesContainersIaCGitOpsCI/CD

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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