Engineering Manager, Identity & Access Platform

OpenAI

Engineering Manager overseeing Identity Infrastructure team at OpenAI, focusing on security and access management platforms. Leading technical direction and team development for mission-critical systems.

Posted 6/22/2026full-timeSan Francisco • California • 🇺🇸 United StatesSeniorLead💰 $293,000 - $490,000 per yearWebsite

Tech Stack

Tools & technologies

Cloud

About the role

Key responsibilities & impact

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.
Establish first-class authorization for agents and workloads, with delegated, action-scoped permissions, time-bound access, full attribution, and no credential sharing.
Partner across Security, Infrastructure, Applied, Research, IT, and product to turn identity standards into systems teams trust and adopt.
Operate identity infrastructure as a mission-critical platform, with clear reliability goals, safe rollouts, strong observability, healthy on-call, and rigorous incident learning.
Measure success by safer, faster, and more accountable access: reduced unnecessary privilege, stronger governance, broader coverage, clearer auditability, and less friction for legitimate work.

Requirements

What you’ll need

Have 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.
High bar for engineering quality, operational discipline, and long-term ownership.

Benefits

Comp & perks

Medical, dental, and vision insurance for you and your family, with employer contributions to Health Savings Accounts
Pre-tax accounts for Health FSA, Dependent Care FSA, and commuter expenses (parking and transit)
401(k) retirement plan with employer match
Paid parental leave (up to 24 weeks for birth parents and 20 weeks for non-birthing parents), plus paid medical and caregiver leave (up to 8 weeks)
Paid time off: flexible PTO for exempt employees and up to 15 days annually for non-exempt employees
13+ paid company holidays, and multiple paid coordinated company office closures throughout the year for focus and recharge, plus paid sick or safe time (1 hour per 30 hours worked, or more, as required by applicable state or local law)
Mental health and wellness support
Employer-paid basic life and disability coverage
Annual learning and development stipend to fuel your professional growth
Daily meals in our offices, and meal delivery credits as eligible
Relocation support for eligible employees
Additional taxable fringe benefits, such as charitable donation matching and wellness stipends, may also be provided.

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Hard Skills & Tools

cloud infrastructureIAMauthenticationauthorizationworkload identityprivileged accesspolicy enforcementengineering qualityoperational disciplineincident learning

Soft Skills

leadershipteam empowermentstrategic thinkingcollaborationjudgmentproblem-solvingcommunicationoperational rigoraccountabilitytrust building