Engineering Manager, Online Data Systems

OpenAI
San Francisco
Workplace: OnsiteFull timeUSD 325,000 - 405,000 annuallyFunction: Software EngineeringSkills: ["Leadership","Team-building","Communication","Problem-solving","Strategic thinking"]

Engineering Manager to lead the Online Data Systems team building and operating OpenAI’s in-house hyperscale data storage, indexing, and retrieval technologies. You’ll drive multi-region, distributed data infrastructure work, ensure reliability with SLOs, and grow a high-performing engineering team focused on scale, performance, and security.

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Engineering Manager, Online Data Systems

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Job Summary

Engineering Manager to lead the Online Data Systems team building and operating OpenAI’s in-house hyperscale data storage, indexing, and retrieval technologies. You’ll drive multi-region, distributed data infrastructure work, ensure reliability with SLOs, and grow a high-performing engineering team focused on scale, performance, and security.
Location: San Francisco
Workplace: Onsite
Employment Type: Full time
Job Function: Software Engineering
Seniority: Manager level

Key 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.

Pay and Benefits

Salary: USD 325,000 - 405,000 annually
Equity and Bonus:Equity
Perks:Equity

Key Requirements

  • •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 technologies
  • •Ability to modulate technical engagement to empower a highly technical team
  • •Proven track record of hiring, developing, and retaining senior engineers
Experience:AIExabytes-scale data infrastructure
Skills:LeadershipTeam-buildingCommunicationProblem-solvingStrategic thinking
Languages:English
Tech Stack:Distributed systemsDatabasesIndexingVector searchSLOsSelf-healingMulti-region

Company Brief

OpenAI
Develops and deploys advanced generative AI models (including ChatGPT and DALL·E) and AI infrastructure, providing APIs and consumer products to accelerate safe AGI for broad benefit.
Industry: AI & Machine Learning
Company Size: Enterprise (1,001+ employees)
Revenue: USD 1B+
Growth: Scaleup
Valuation: Hectocorn (USD 100B+)
Funding: Series E+
Headquarters: San Francisco, United States
Founded: 2015
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Glassdoor: 4.4
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