Engineering Manager, Core Platform & Services

Triwill Group; San Francisco, Northern (CA, KY); Hybrid; USD 260,000 - 340,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Relocation assistance

Job summary

OpenAI is seeking an Engineering Manager, Core Services to lead teams responsible for highly reliable, high-scale distributed systems that sit on the critical path for our products.

You will own foundational production systems, collaborate with product and infrastructure partners to ship reliable services quickly, and scale systems and teams as OpenAI grows. This role requires strong technical ability, and a focus on coaching and developing engineers and leaders.

Qualifications

• 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 (orchestration/workflow execution, large-scale storage/blob/file infrastructure).
• Experience spanning multiple cloud environments.
• Ability to own problems end-to-end in ambiguous environments.

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 product engineering, adjacent infrastructure teams, and (where relevant) finance/cost partners.
• Coaching, mentoring, and developing engineers and emerging leaders.

Skills

Infrastructure leadership

Distributed systems

Platform engineering

Cloud environments

Mentoring

Job description

OpenAI is seeking an Engineering Manager, Core Services to lead teams responsible for highly reliable, high-scale distributed systems that sit on the critical path for our products.

You will own foundational production systems, collaborate with product and infrastructure partners to ship reliable services quickly, and scale systems and teams as OpenAI grows. This role requires strong technical ability, and a focus on coaching and developing engineers and leaders.