Engineering Manager, Hyperscale Data Systems

OpenAI; San Francisco, Mountain View (CA, CA); On-site; USD 250,000 - 330,000; Full time

Job summary

OpenAI is seeking an Engineering Manager for the Online Data Systems team. You will lead a world‑class group building and operating hyperscale in‑house database and indexing technology, delivering highly reliable data storage and retrieval systems.

You’ll shape the architecture and drive performance, latency, and security in a demanding production environment, enabling AI products at scale. You will manage senior engineers, hire and grow talent, and champion end‑to‑end reliability while

Qualifications

• In this role, you will lead a world‑class infrastructure engineering team.
• You’ll drive evolution of OpenAI’s in‑house online data technologies, including core database systems and indexing tech.
• You will anchor delivery around measurable reliability goals (SLOs) to ensure performance and resiliency.
• You will champion pragmatic use of agent technology to accelerate execution velocity.
• You will reduce operational toil through better abstractions, guardrails, and self‑healing 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.

Job description

OpenAI is seeking an Engineering Manager for the Online Data Systems team. You will lead a world‑class group building and operating hyperscale in‑house database and indexing technology, delivering highly reliable data storage and retrieval systems.

You’ll shape the architecture and drive performance, latency, and security in a demanding production environment, enabling AI products at scale. You will manage senior engineers, hire and grow talent, and champion end‑to‑end reliability while