Engineering Manager, Online Data Systems
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. Our mission is to ens
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Engineering Manager, Online Data Systems at OpenAI in San Francisco. UpJobz keeps this listing high-signal for applicants targeting serious high-tech roles across the United States, Canada, and Mexico. 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. Our mission is to ens
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- 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.
- Have a truly insatiable spirit for operational excellence, demonstrated by having your hands-on in building and operating infrastructure with strict reliability, latency, and security requirements.
What a strong candidate brings
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- Have 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.
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