Engineering Manager, Core Services

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senior

$293k–$385k

H1B: yes

OpenAI Engineering Manager, Core Services leads teams responsible for highly reliable, high-scale distributed systems foundational to OpenAI products. This role involves managing infrastructure engineers, setting technical direction, and collaborating with product and infrastructure partners to scale systems and teams.

Responsibilities

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.
You’ll be responsible for:
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.
You might thrive in this role if you:
Have significant experience leading teams that run mission-critical infrastructure in production.
Have experience operating mission-critical services, or core distributed systems building blocks.
Have built platform-like systems (e.g., orchestration/workflow execution, service platforms) and/or large-scale storage/blob/file infrastructure.

Qualification

Required

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 or large-scale storage/blob/file infrastructure
Experience building systems spanning multiple cloud environments