Engineering Manager, Core Platform Services

Neura Market; San Francisco, Northern (CA, KY); Hybrid; USD 180,000 - 280,000; Full time

Job summary

OpenAI is seeking an Engineering Manager for Core Services in San Francisco to lead teams that build and run highly reliable, large-scale distributed systems that are central to OpenAI products. You will guide platform foundations, work with product and infrastructure partners, and scale both systems and teams while emphasizing reliability and operational excellence.

You’ll collaborate with senior engineering leaders to mature operations, set technical direction, and coach engineers to grow

Qualifications

• 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.
• Have experience building systems spanning multiple cloud environments.
• Take pride in building scalable, reliable systems and improving operational health.
• Own problems end-to-end and can move fast in environments with ambiguity and competing priorities.

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 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.

Job description

OpenAI is seeking an Engineering Manager for Core Services in San Francisco to lead teams that build and run highly reliable, large-scale distributed systems that are central to OpenAI products. You will guide platform foundations, work with product and infrastructure partners, and scale both systems and teams while emphasizing reliability and operational excellence.

You’ll collaborate with senior engineering leaders to mature operations, set technical direction, and coach engineers to grow