Engineering Manager, Core Platform & Reliability

OpenAI; San Francisco (CA); On-site; USD 230,000 - 290,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Relocation assistance

Job summary

OpenAI is seeking an Engineering Manager for Core Services in San Francisco to lead mission-critical distributed systems and platform foundations that power product teams. You will mentor engineers, set technical direction, and partner with product and infrastructure to scale services, improve reliability, and drive major platform initiatives.

Relocation assistance is available for new hires. Join OpenAI to help scale core services, oversee resilience efforts, and guide a growing team of

Responsibilities

• 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 storage/blob/file infrastructure.
• 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.

Job description

OpenAI is seeking an Engineering Manager for Core Services in San Francisco to lead mission-critical distributed systems and platform foundations that power product teams. You will mentor engineers, set technical direction, and partner with product and infrastructure to scale services, improve reliability, and drive major platform initiatives.

Relocation assistance is available for new hires. Join OpenAI to help scale core services, oversee resilience efforts, and guide a growing team of