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Engineering Manager, Identity & Access Platform

293k – 490kSan Francisco, CAEngineering ManagementHybrid10+ YOE
Summary

Lead the Identity Infrastructure Engineering team building scalable, secure identity and access management systems for OpenAI's research, engineering, and internal platforms. Requires 10+ years leading engineering teams and deep expertise in IAM, cloud infrastructure, and security-critical systems.

About the role

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.
  • 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.

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.
  • High bar for engineering quality, operational discipline, and long-term ownership.
Skills
IAMCloud InfrastructureAuthenticationAuthorizationWorkload IdentityPrivileged Access ManagementPolicy EnforcementInfrastructure as CodeAccess ControlSecurity Engineering
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