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Engineering Manager, Core Services

San Francisco💼 Full-time🗓 2026-08-31 → 2026-09-26

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

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