Engineering Manager, Hyperscale Online Data Systems

Neura Market; San Francisco, Northern (CA, KY); Hybrid; USD 220,000 - 320,000; Full time

Job summary

OpenAI is seeking an Engineering Manager to lead the Online Data Systems team, responsible for our in‑house database and indexing technology. You’ll shepherd a world‑class engineering team building and operating hyperscale data storage and retrieval systems.

You’ll drive delivery around reliability, latency, and security, guiding efforts in distributed query execution, multi‑region federation, self‑healing services, and performance optimization to scale OpenAI’s data stack for production AI

Qualifications

• Hands-on experience building and operating infrastructure with strict reliability, latency, and security requirements.
• Experience managing data‑intensive software engineering teams in demanding environments.
• 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.

Job description

OpenAI is seeking an Engineering Manager to lead the Online Data Systems team, responsible for our in‑house database and indexing technology. You’ll shepherd a world‑class engineering team building and operating hyperscale data storage and retrieval systems.

You’ll drive delivery around reliability, latency, and security, guiding efforts in distributed query execution, multi‑region federation, self‑healing services, and performance optimization to scale OpenAI’s data stack for production AI