Engineering Manager, Identity Infrastructure
Core
Lead a team building foundational identity services (authentication, token exchange, request validation) that serve as the secure front door for OpenAI's AI products, ensuring high availability, security, and low latency under extreme load.
Role type
Senior Engineering Manager, Identity Infrastructure
Builds
Distributed identity systems, authentication stacks, and token exchange infrastructure for OpenAI apps and the broader AI ecosystem.
Domain
AI / Identity & Access Management / Distributed Systems
Deliverable
production ML models | infrastructure
Required skills
People leadership, distributed systems architecture, high-scale backend operations, infrastructure stack expertise (hardware, cluster management, services, storage), hiring and team development, technical strategy definition.
Preferred skills
Experience in fast-paced environments, coaching engineers to peak performance, holistic decision-making, operational excellence.
Technologies
Kubernetes, gRPC, Python, Go, Terraform, AWS, Azure, Google Cloud, Docker, Redis, Kafka, PostgreSQL, MySQL, MongoDB, Elasticsearch, Apache Spark, Hadoop, TensorFlow, PyTorch, Scikit-learn, Pandas, NumPy, React, Vue.js, Angular, Node.js, Java, C++, C#, Ruby, PHP, Swift, Kotlin, Scala, Rust, Haskell, Erlang, Elixir, Clojure, F#, R, Julia, MATLAB, SAS, SPSS, Stata, RStudio, Jupyter, Databricks, Snowflake, BigQuery, Redshift, Teradata, Oracle, Sybase, Informix, DB2, Vertica, ClickHouse, Druid, Pinot, Apache Flink, Apache Storm, Apache Samza, Apache NiFi, Apache Airflow, Apache Beam, Apache Spark Streaming, Apache Kafka Streams, Apache Pulsar, Apache RocketMQ, Apache ActiveMQ, RabbitMQ, Apache Solr, Apache Lucene, Apache HBase, Apache Cassandra, Apache Hudi, Apache Iceberg, Apache Delta Lake, Apache Parquet, Apache Avro, Apache Thrift, Apache Protobuf, Apache gRPC, Apache Avro, Apache JSON, Apache XML, Apache YAML, Apache TOML, Apache INI, Apache CSV, Apache TSV, Apache JSON Lines, Apache NDJSON, Apache BSON, Apache MsgPack, Apache Cap'n Proto, Apache FlatBuffers, Apache Protobuf, Apache Thrift, Apache Avro, Apache JSON, Apache XML, Apache YAML, Apache TOML, Apache INI, Apache CSV, Apache TSV, Apache JSON Lines, Apache NDJSON, Apache BSON, Apache MsgPack, Apache Cap'n Proto, Apache FlatBuffers
Responsibilities
Build and lead a high-performing engineering team; define and own technical strategy and roadmap; guide architecture of distributed systems; partner with Product and Infrastructure teams; establish processes for fast learning and responsible innovation; lead the authentication stack and token exchange infrastructure; own request validation at the edge; oversee systems enabling secure access to user data.
Seniority
Senior, hands-on IC with people leadership
