OpenAI
Engineering Manager, Core Services
$293K–$385K
San Francisco · Manager · Full-time · Posted Aug 31, 2026
About the job
Leads teams building and operating reliable, large-scale distributed production systems and core platform services used by OpenAI product teams.
What you'll do
- Manage, grow, coach, and develop infrastructure engineers and emerging leaders.
- Lead critical production platforms, including cluster reliability, scaling, rollout safety, and operational practices such as SLOs and incident response.
- Set technical direction for workflow/orchestration, storage, and core service foundations, partnering with product and infrastructure stakeholders.
What they ask for
- Significant experience leading teams that run mission-critical infrastructure in production.
- Experience operating mission-critical services or core distributed systems building blocks.
- Experience building platform-like systems and/or large-scale storage, blob, or file infrastructure.
Nice to have
- Experience building systems spanning multiple cloud environments.
Pay
$293K – $385K (USD, base salary)
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