Engineering Manager, Hyperscale Data Systems

OpenAI; California (MO); On-site; USD 180,000 - 280,000; Full time

Job summary

OpenAI is seeking an Engineering Manager for the Online Data Systems team. You will lead a world-class infrastructure group responsible for hyperscale data storage and retrieval technologies.

You will guide delivery with strong reliability goals, drive evolution of our core in-house database and indexing technologies, and empower engineers to push the boundaries of scale and performance.

Join a mission-driven team building foundational data systems that power OpenAI's production AI applications.

Qualifications

• Experience leading data-intensive software teams in demanding environments.
• Hands-on in building and operating infrastructure with strong reliability and security.
• Deep understanding of database, indexing, storage, and distributed systems.

Responsibilities

• Build, lead, and grow high-performing infrastructure engineering teams.
• Drive the evolution of OpenAI’s in-house online data technologies, our core, hyper-scale database systems, indexing technologies, and vector search.
• Anchor delivery around measurable reliability goals (SLOs, etc) to ensure system performance and resiliency is above reproach.
• Champion pragmatic use of agent technology to amplify execution velocity.
• Reduce operational toil and incident frequency through better abstractions, guardrails, and self-healing systems.

Skills

Operational excellence

Data-intensive leadership

Distributed systems

Hiring senior engineers

Database & indexing technologies

Job description

OpenAI is seeking an Engineering Manager for the Online Data Systems team. You will lead a world-class infrastructure group responsible for hyperscale data storage and retrieval technologies.

You will guide delivery with strong reliability goals, drive evolution of our core in-house database and indexing technologies, and empower engineers to push the boundaries of scale and performance.

Join a mission-driven team building foundational data systems that power OpenAI's production AI applications.