Engineering Manager, Identity & Access Platform
Core
Lead the Identity Infrastructure team building control planes, policy systems, and authorization patterns for OpenAI's research, engineering, and internal platforms.
Role type
Engineering Manager, Identity & Access Platform
Builds
Control planes, policy systems, workload/agent authorization patterns, infrastructure-as-code, and operational foundations for identity management.
Domain
Cloud infrastructure, Identity & Access Management (IAM), Security-critical operations
Deliverable
production ML models | product features | infrastructure
Required skills
Large-scale platform leadership, security-critical system ownership, cloud infrastructure expertise, IAM/authentication/authorization, hands-on code and architecture review, complex infrastructure problem solving
Preferred skills
Strategic direction setting, team growth and empowerment, durable architecture decision making, 0-to-1 platform creation
Technologies
Cloud infrastructure, IAM, authentication, authorization, workload identity, policy enforcement, infrastructure-as-code
Responsibilities
Build and lead a high-performing Identity Infrastructure team; Define strategy for identity platform as the policy plane for access; Scale Access Manager for human and agent lifecycles; Build the access graph and resource catalog; Replace broad standing privilege with risk-tiered access; Establish first-class authorization for agents and workloads; Partner across Security, Infrastructure, Applied, Research, IT, and product; Operate identity infrastructure as a mission-critical platform
Seniority
Senior, hands-on IC leader with team management
