Technical Program Manager, Storage & Data Infrastructure

The role

You will define and lead multiple programs across data platforms, online databases, and storage infrastructure. You will connect model, product, and data-consumer requirements to architecture and work with engineering teams to drive production adoption.

What you will do

• Translate model, product and data-platform needs into precise requirements.
• Partner with engineering to transform data and storage architecture into repeatable scale units.
• Lead cross-stack programs connecting ingestion, processing, databases, indexes, and storage.
• Make cost and efficiency architectural inputs.
• Drive resilience and recovery programs with explicit failure scenarios and validation.
• Coordinate lifecycle correctness across files, objects, databases and data platforms.
• Lead adoption and major migrations through compatibility checks and workload testing.
• Measure architecture changes through product and platform outcomes.

Required qualifications

• Have independently owned complex production programs in data platforms, databases or storage infrastructure.
• Have deep working knowledge of hyperscaler/cloud storage technologies, such as Amazon S3 or Azure Blob Storage.
• Understand the full data and storage stack.
• Can translate model, product and data-consumer needs into precise platform requirements.
• Have led delivery across product, model, data, database, storage and infrastructure teams.
• Can use workload evidence to make tradeoffs across capability, correctness, reliability, latency and cost/efficiency.
• Communicate complex decisions clearly and maintain ownership through production adoption.

Benefits

• Relocation assistance to new employees

Before you apply

• Background checks for applicants will be administered in accordance with applicable law.

About the company

OpenAI is an AI research and deployment company dedicated to ensuring that general-purpose artificial intelligence benefits all of humanity.