# Engineering Manager, Client Platform Engineering at OpenAI

- Company: OpenAI
- What the company does: Backed by Greylock, Insight and Khosla.
- Company website: https://openai.com/
- Type: Startups (AI role)
- Level: Senior
- Location: San Francisco
- Work setup: Remote
- Pay: $401K to $445K base salary per year (USD)
- Posted: 2026-09-08
- Apply by: 2026-10-23
- Apply: https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/openai/5df9e349-f8e1-4cfd-ba20-ec9e4115d564
- Page: https://www.1752.vc/careers/jobs/openai-engineering-manager-client-platform-engineering/

## About the role

As an Engineering Manager for CPE, you will lead a team of engineers responsible for the strategy, delivery, and operation of OpenAI’s cross-platform client foundation. You will combine people leadership with strong technical judgment: setting direction, developing engineers, reviewing architecture and tradeoffs, and creating the operating mechanisms that turn ambiguous needs into durable platform outcomes.

## What they're looking for

- Built and led teams that owned secure, reliable, mission critical services and infrastructure at scale, from strategy through production operations
- Delivered internal platforms, tooling, and services that materially improved reliability, security, and employee experience
- Made sound software and infrastructure engineering decisions at scale. Deep endpoint expertise is strongly preferred
- Raised production readiness through direct technical review of architecture, automation, code, IaC/GitOps, CI/CD, observability, and operational tradeoffs
- Operated infrastructure with material security or identity risk through staged rollouts, incidents, and decisions that balanced risk, compliance, and employee or developer experience
- Committed to joining the team’s engineering on call rotation after ramp up and using firsthand operational context to improve reliability and reduce toil

Tags: Security