Engineering Manager, Core Services
Core
Lead teams building and operating large, critical production platforms and mission-critical distributed systems for OpenAI's product engineering teams.
Role type
Engineering Manager, Core Services
Builds
Foundational production systems, cluster reliability, scaling, rollout safety, workflow/orchestration capabilities, large-scale file/blob/storage services.
Domain
AI infrastructure, distributed systems, cloud platforms
Deliverable
production ML models | infrastructure
Required skills
Leading high-performing infrastructure teams, operating mission-critical distributed systems, building platform-like systems (orchestration, storage), multi-cloud architecture, SLO definition, incident response, capacity planning, technical direction setting, stakeholder partnership, coaching and mentoring engineers.
Preferred skills
Experience with large-scale file/blob infrastructure, building systems spanning multiple cloud environments, improving operational health, owning problems end-to-end.
Technologies
Distributed systems, cloud environments, workflow orchestration, storage services
Responsibilities
Manage and grow a high-performing team of infrastructure engineers; Lead teams building and operating large, critical production platforms; Build and operate mission-critical distributed systems with strong operational rigor; Set technical direction for platform foundations; Partner with a broad set of stakeholders; Coach, mentor, and develop engineers and emerging leaders.
Seniority
Manager, hands-on leadership