About the company
The Enterprise Identity team builds the identity foundation that enables organizations to adopt and use OpenAI products securely and reliably. The team owns the enterprise identity stack, including SSO, SCIM, tenant architecture, and identity capabilities.
About the role
We are looking for a hands-on senior technical leader to own the architecture and evolution of OpenAI's Enterprise Identity systems. You will set the long-term technical vision for the entire stack, establish shared identity primitives across products, and be accountable for systems foundational to our enterprise business. Based in San Francisco or Mountain View office.
Responsibilities
- Own the technical vision and architecture for the Enterprise Identity stack, including SSO, SCIM, tenant architecture, groups, permissions, and identity capabilities
- Lead the design and evolution of highly available, latency-sensitive identity systems serving a large global enterprise customer base
- Establish common identity models and primitives that work consistently across OpenAI's products
- Set a high security bar by anticipating abuse cases, failure modes, and long-term implications of new capabilities
- Drive alignment across enterprise product, infrastructure, and security partners
- Provide technical leadership to senior engineers and raise the quality of architecture and execution
Requirements
- Have owned the architecture of a broad, business-critical platform or large-scale distributed-systems domain at the senior-staff level
- Have set multi-year technical direction and successfully aligned multiple teams around complex architectural decisions
- Understand enterprise identity, enterprise architecture, and operational needs of large customers in multi-product environments
- Experience with SSO, SCIM, identity providers, tenant models, permissions, groups, or adjacent identity infrastructure
- Bring a security-minded, adversarial approach to systems design
- Can move between deep technical judgment, organizational influence, and hands-on leadership
Conditions
- Based in San Francisco or Mountain View office