Engineering Manager, Core Services

The role

You will lead teams responsible for highly reliable, high-scale distributed systems. You will manage infrastructure engineers and build foundational production systems for OpenAI products.

What you will do

• Managing and growing a high-performing team of infrastructure engineers.
• Leading teams building and operating large, critical production platforms.
• Building and operating mission-critical distributed systems with strong operational rigor.
• Setting technical direction for platform foundations.
• Partnering with a broad set of stakeholders.
• Coaching, mentoring, and developing engineers and emerging leaders.

Required qualifications

• Strong technical ability.
• Significant experience leading teams that run mission-critical infrastructure in production.
• Experience operating mission-critical services or core distributed systems building blocks.
• Experience building systems spanning multiple cloud environments.
• Ability to own problems end-to-end and move fast in environments with ambiguity and competing priorities.

Nice to have

• Experience building platform-like systems (e.g., orchestration/workflow execution, service platforms) and/or large-scale storage/blob/file infrastructure.

Benefits

• Relocation assistance for 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.