Engineering Manager, Identity & Access Platform

Responsibilities

• Build and lead a high-performing Identity Infrastructure team, setting technical direction while empowering engineers to own delivery.
• Define the strategy for the identity platform as the policy plane for access across people, agents, workloads, and services.
• Scale Access Manager to handle evolving human and agent lifecycles, ensuring access is contextual, time-bound, and accountable.
• Establish first-class authorization for agents and workloads with delegated, action-scoped permissions and full attribution.
• Partner across Security, Infrastructure, Research, and IT to turn identity standards into trusted, adopted systems.
• Operate identity infrastructure as a mission-critical platform with high reliability, strong observability, and rigorous incident learning.

Requirements

• 10+ years of experience building and developing engineering teams that own large-scale platforms.
• Proven experience owning security-critical production systems where reliability, least privilege, and auditability are essential.
• Deep technical judgment across cloud infrastructure, IAM, authentication, authorization, and workload identity.
• Hands-on technical depth to dive into code and architecture, pressure-test designs, and guide complex tradeoffs.
• A track record of turning complex infrastructure problems into widely adopted platforms across diverse engineering teams.

Benefits

• Competitive base salary ($293K – $490K) and generous equity.
• Medical, dental, and vision insurance for you and your family.
• 401(k) retirement plan with employer match.
• Paid parental leave (up to 24 weeks for birth parents) and caregiver leave.
• Flexible PTO and 13+ paid company holidays.
• Daily meals in the office and mental health/wellness support.
• Annual learning and development stipend.

About the Company

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 AI capabilities and seek to safely deploy them to the world through our products.