engineering
Posted Mar 16Engineering Manager, Online Data Systems
at openai
San Francisco, United StatesOn-site
Responsibilities
- - Drive the evolution of OpenAI’s in-house online data technologies, our core, hyper-scale database systems, indexing technologies, and vector search.
Requirements
- About the Team The Online Data team builds and operates the core online database and indexing services for OpenAI’s production AI applications, including supporting the explosive growth of ChatGPT, the #1 AI app in the world, and Codex, the fastest growing agentic development toolset in the world.
- experience managing data-intensive software engineering teams in intense, demanding environments. - Bring deep hands-on understanding of database, indexing, storage, and distributed systems technologies. - Effectively modulate your technical engagement to create space for a highly technical team to lead and grow. - Have a demonstrable track record of hiring, developing, and retaining senior engineers.
- About OpenAI OpenAI is an AI research and deployment company dedicated to ensuring that general-purpose artificial intelligence
Additional details
- Our mission is to ensure the reliability, correctness, and scalability of our online data stack and to curate a comprehensive portfolio of services that matches the relentless ambition of OpenAI, enabling our product and research teams to build 0-100 without getting bogged down in the minutiae of multi-region, multi-cloud, exabyte-scale data infrastructure.
- About the Role We are seeking an Engineering Manager to lead our Online Data Systems team, responsible for our in-house database and indexing technology.
- This role is about shepherding a team of world-class engineers tasked with building and operating hyperscale data storage and retrieval technology.
- You’ll be overseeing the delivery of extremely challenging engineering work in areas like distributed query execution, multi-region federation, self-orchestrating and self-healing services, low-level performance optimization, and more.
- There are few companies in the world building this kind of technology in-house at this scale where you’ll still be getting in on the ground floor.
- Instead of being a cog in the machine spending months chasing small optimizations, you’ll play a major part of shaping our future. In this role,
- you will: - Build, lead, and grow high-performing infrastructure engineering teams.
- - 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.