Engineering Manager, Core Services

Responsibilities

• Manage and grow a high-performing team of infrastructure engineers.
• Lead teams building and operating large, critical production platforms, including cluster reliability, scaling, and rollout safety.
• Build and operate mission-critical distributed systems with strong operational rigor, including SLOs, incident response, and capacity planning.
• Set technical direction for platform foundations such as workflow/orchestration capabilities and large-scale storage services.
• Partner with product engineering, infrastructure teams, and finance partners to drive major platform initiatives.
• Coach, mentor, and develop engineers and emerging leaders.

Requirements

• Significant experience leading teams that run mission-critical infrastructure in production.
• Experience operating core distributed systems or mission-critical service building blocks.
• Experience building platform-like systems, such as orchestration, workflow execution, or service platforms.
• Experience with large-scale storage, blob, or file infrastructure.
• Experience building and operating systems spanning multiple cloud environments.
• Ability to own problems end-to-end and navigate environments with ambiguity and competing priorities.

Benefits

• Competitive salary ($293K – $385K) and generous equity.
• Medical, dental, and vision insurance for you and your family.
• 401(k) retirement plan with employer match.
• Paid parental leave (up to 24 weeks for birth parents) and medical/caregiver leave.
• Flexible PTO and 13+ paid company holidays.
• Daily meals in the office and meal delivery credits.
• Annual learning and development stipend.
• Relocation support for eligible employees.

About the Company

OpenAI is an AI research and deployment company dedicated to ensuring that general-purpose artificial intelligence benefits all of humanity. We push the boundaries of the capabilities of AI systems and seek to safely deploy them to the world through our products.