Engineering Manager, Client Platform Engineering

Job summary

Responsibilities

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…

• Lead and develop a high-performing engineering team; hire thoughtfully, coach engineers, create clarity, and foster an inclusive, high-accountability culture that pushes…
• Define and execute a multi-year client-platform strategy and roadmap across macOS, Windows, iOS, Android, and Linux, including how Codex and agents can reshape employee computing.
• Provide technical direction for endpoint posture, device trust, application delivery, device onboarding, updates, fleet telemetry, workflow orchestration, and employee-facing…
• Guide architecture and engineering tradeoffs across first-party services, open-source tooling, SaaS platforms, IaC/GitOps, CI/CD, and cloud infrastructure.
• Establish clear goals, ownership, planning, design reviews, and execution rhythms that let the team move quickly without sacrificing quality.

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…

Tech stack

• Terraform
• Kubernetes