# Engineering Manager, Client Platform Engineering

**Company:** [OpenAI](https://hotfix.jobs/companies/openai)
**Location:** San Francisco, CA, New York, NY, Seattle, WA
**Role:** Engineering Management
**Salary:** $401k – $445k/yr
**Experience:** 5+ years
**Skills:** macOS, Windows, iOS, Android, Linux, Endpoint Security, Device Management, Terraform, Kubernetes, GitOps, CI/CD, Observability, Jamf, Intune, Fleetdm
**Posted:** 2026-09-08

> Leads the client platform engineering organization responsible for secure, reliable endpoint services across major operating systems. The role combines people management, platform strategy, architecture oversight, operational excellence, and cross-functional partnership.

## Job Description

## Responsibilities
- Lead and develop a high-performing client platform engineering team, including hiring, coaching, goal-setting, 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.
- Provide technical direction for endpoint posture, device trust, application delivery, onboarding, updates, fleet telemetry, workflow orchestration, and employee-facing remediation.
- Guide architecture and engineering tradeoffs across first-party services, open-source tooling, SaaS platforms, infrastructure as code, GitOps, CI/CD, and cloud infrastructure.
- Establish planning, design-review, ownership, and execution mechanisms that support fast, high-quality delivery.
- Improve reliability and security through observability, drift detection, staged rollouts, release gates, rollback paths, incident learning, runbooks, and operational ownership.
- Partner with Security, IT, Research, Applied, Product, and engineering teams to align priorities and implement company-wide changes.
- Balance security and compliance controls with developer velocity, employee experience, and operational simplicity.
- Use adoption, reliability, security posture, data freshness, employee experience, workflow completion, friction, agent effectiveness, and operational-load metrics to guide investment.
- Participate in the engineering on-call rotation after ramp-up.

## Requirements
- Experience building and leading teams responsible for secure, reliable, mission-critical services and infrastructure at scale, from strategy through production operations.
- Experience delivering internal platforms, tooling, and services that improve reliability, security, and employee experience.
- Strong software and infrastructure engineering judgment at scale; deep endpoint expertise is strongly preferred.
- Experience reviewing architecture, automation, code, infrastructure as code, GitOps, CI/CD, observability, and operational tradeoffs.
- Experience operating infrastructure with significant security or identity risk, including staged rollouts and incident response.
- Experience building inclusive teams, communicating clearly, and influencing partners across Security, IT, Product, and Engineering.

## Nice to Have
- Experience with client-platform ecosystems such as Jamf, Intune, Android Enterprise, FleetDM, osquery, Munki, AutoPkg, or Linux configuration management.
- Experience building platforms or services for application delivery, device posture and trust, onboarding, notifications, workflow orchestration, or fleet telemetry.
- Familiarity with cloud infrastructure, Terraform, Kubernetes, containers, service orchestration, and large-scale observability.
- Experience partnering with security, compliance, or privacy teams in high-assurance environments.
- Experience supporting research, developer, robotics, hardware-lab, or other specialized computing environments.
- Contributions to open-source tooling, engineering communities, or cross-company technical standards.

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