Engineering Manager Identity Platform

AI research and deployment company building and deploying frontier AI products, including ChatGPT, Codex, and its API platform.

Recently funded151 current maintainers88 active leads20 new active leads99 lead step-downs12 early lead departures
San Francisco, United States
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About the Role

You will lead the team responsible for foundational identity services, authentication, token exchange, edge request validation, and secure user-data access. You will own technical strategy and execution, guide distributed-systems architecture, develop engineers, and partner with Product, Infrastructure, and Security teams.

Requirements

  • 10+ years of experience building, scaling, and operating distributed systems at large scale
  • 3+ years of experience managing high-performance engineering teams
  • Experience managing an infrastructure team
  • Experience building and operating high-scale backend systems
  • Infrastructure expertise across hardware, cluster management, services, and storage layers

Responsibilities

  • Build, lead, coach, and mentor the engineering team
  • Define and own technical strategy, roadmap, and execution for identity systems
  • Guide distributed-systems architecture for reliability, privacy, and performance
  • Partner with Product and Infrastructure teams
  • Lead authentication and token exchange infrastructure
  • Improve edge request validation for logged-in users
  • Oversee secure user-data access systems and internal access patterns

Benefits

  • Medical, dental, and vision insurance with employer Health Savings Account contributions
  • Pre-tax Health FSA, Dependent Care FSA, and commuter accounts
  • 401(k) retirement plan with employer match
  • Paid parental, medical, and caregiver leave
  • Flexible PTO or up to 15 annual days for non-exempt employees
  • Paid holidays, office closures, and sick or safe time
  • Mental health and wellness support
  • Employer-paid basic life and disability coverage
  • Annual learning and development stipend
  • Daily office meals and eligible meal-delivery credits
  • Relocation support for eligible employees
  • Potential charitable donation matching and wellness stipends