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Engineering Manager, Core Services

OpenAI· Applied AI
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San Francisco$293k - $385kFull-timePosted 8mo ago

About the role

Engineering Manager responsible for leading teams that build and operate highly reliable, high-scale distributed systems on the Core Services Foundation at OpenAI.

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.

Qualifications

  • Significant experience leading teams that run mission-critical infrastructure in production.
  • Experience operating mission-critical services or core distributed systems building blocks.
  • Built platform-like systems (e.g., orchestration/workflow execution, service platforms) and/or large-scale storage/blob/file infrastructure.
  • Experience building systems spanning multiple cloud environments.
  • Ability to build scalable, reliable systems and improve operational health.
  • Ownership of problems end-to-end and ability to move fast in environments with ambiguity and competing priorities.

Skills

Required:Infrastructure leadershipOperations of core distributed systemsPlatform-like systems / orchestration
Nice to have:Large-scale storage/blob/file infrastructureCross-cloud systems

Benefits

  • Medical, dental, and vision insurance for you and your family, with employer contributions to Health Savings Accounts
  • Pre-tax accounts for Health FSA, Dependent Care FSA, and commuter expenses (parking and transit)
  • 401(k) retirement plan with employer match
  • Paid parental leave (up to 24 weeks for birth parents and 20 weeks for non-birthing parents), plus paid medical and caregiver leave (up to 8 weeks)
  • Paid time off: flexible PTO for exempt employees and up to 15 days annually for non-exempt employees
  • 13+ paid company holidays, and multiple paid coordinated company office closures throughout the year for focus and recharge, plus paid sick or safe time
  • Mental health and wellness support
  • Employer-paid basic life and disability coverage
  • Annual learning and development stipend
  • Daily meals in our offices, and meal delivery credits as eligible
  • Relocation support for eligible employees
  • Additional taxable fringe benefits, such as charitable donation matching and wellness stipends
Last updated Sep 3, 2026. Interested? Apply on the company site.

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