Engineering Manager, API Multicloud
About The Position
The Engineering Manager will lead the team responsible for building and operating OpenAI’s API across major cloud service providers (CSPs). The role focuses on establishing scalable, reliable, and efficient cloud deployment platforms that make OpenAI’s frontier models available to customers across multiple cloud environments. The manager owns the API Multicloud platform’s technical direction, execution, and operational excellence. This includes guiding work on model-serving environments, capacity scaling, performance and utilization optimization, and reusable systems that support expansion across CSP platforms. The role balances long-term architectural investments with the delivery of new model capabilities and partner integrations. The position works closely with engineering leaders in inference, API, infrastructure, security, and Safety Systems, as well as CSP engineering teams. It also involves developing a high-performing engineering team, setting technical priorities, and fostering ownership, collaboration, and operational excellence.
Requirements
- Experience leading, building, and developing high-performing engineering teams responsible for large-scale cloud infrastructure, distributed systems, or platform engineering.
- Strong technical background in distributed systems and cloud infrastructure, with the ability to drive architectural decisions and provide technical guidance to senior engineers.
- Experience building and operating production infrastructure on major cloud platforms such as AWS, Google Cloud, or Azure.
- Track record of leading complex, cross-functional engineering initiatives from architecture through production launch and ongoing operations.
- Strong understanding of scalability, reliability, performance optimization, and infrastructure efficiency in large-scale production environments.
- Ability to hire, mentor, and develop engineering talent while fostering technical excellence, ownership, and execution.
- Strong communication and collaboration skills, including experience influencing technical direction across engineering teams and external partners.
Nice To Haves
- Experience with AI infrastructure, inference systems, or model serving.
Responsibilities
- Lead, mentor, and grow a high-performing engineering team responsible for building and operating OpenAI’s API infrastructure across multiple cloud providers.
- Define the technical vision, strategy, and roadmap for API Multicloud, ensuring the platform is scalable, reliable, and efficient.
- Drive the architecture and execution of distributed systems supporting API routing, model serving, and cloud infrastructure across CSP environments.
- Partner with inference, API, infrastructure, security, and CSP engineering teams to launch new models, expand platform capabilities, and deliver reliable production services.
- Own platform reliability, performance, and operational excellence, including improvements to capacity planning, infrastructure efficiency, and deployment processes.
- Recruit and develop engineering talent, fostering technical excellence, ownership, and continuous improvement.
- Set priorities, navigate ambiguity, and drive cross-functional execution while balancing near-term business needs with long-term technical investments.
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What This Job Offers
Job Type
Full-time
Career Level
Manager
Education Level
No Education Listed
