Engineering Manager, Core Services

OpenAI•San Francisco, CA

1d•$293,000 - $385,000•Onsite

About The Position

We’re hiring an Engineering Manager, Core Services to help lead teams responsible for highly reliable, high-scale distributed systems that sit on the critical path for OpenAI products. Your team will own foundational production systems that OpenAI’s product engineering teams build on. You’ll collaborate closely with product and infrastructure partners to ship reliable services quickly, and help scale systems and teams as OpenAI grows. You’ll partner closely with senior engineering leaders to scale the org, mature operations, and drive major platform initiatives. This role requires strong technical ability.

Requirements

Significant experience leading teams that run mission-critical infrastructure in production.
Experience operating mission-critical services, or core distributed systems building blocks.
Experience building platform-like systems (e.g., orchestration/workflow execution, service platforms) and/or large-scale storage/blob/file infrastructure.
Experience building systems spanning multiple cloud environments.
Ability to own problems end-to-end and can move fast in environments with ambiguity and competing priorities.

Nice To Haves

Take pride in building scalable, reliable systems and improving operational health.

Responsibilities

Managing and growing a high-performing, team of infrastructure engineers.
Leading teams building and operating large, critical production platforms, including cluster reliability, scaling, and rollout safety.
Building and operating mission-critical distributed systems with strong operational rigor (SLOs, incident response, capacity planning, reliability).
Setting technical direction for platform foundations such as workflow/orchestration capabilities, large-scale file/blob/storage services, and core service foundations.
Partnering with a broad set of stakeholders, including product engineering, adjacent infrastructure teams, and (where relevant) finance/cost partners.
Coaching, mentoring, and developing engineers and emerging leaders.