# Engineering Manager, Online Data Systems

**Company:** [OpenAI](https://hotfix.jobs/companies/openai)
**Location:** San Francisco, CA
**Role:** Engineering Management
**Salary:** $325k – $405k/yr
**Skills:** Distributed Systems, Databases, Indexing, Vector Search, SLOs, Multi-Region Federation, Self-Healing Systems, Storage Systems, Query Execution, Performance Optimization
**Posted:** 2026-03-13

> Lead engineering team building and operating hyperscale online data systems including databases, indexing, and vector search for OpenAI's AI applications. Requires deep expertise in distributed systems, operational excellence, and managing data-intensive teams.

## Job Description

## In this role, you will:
- Build, lead, and grow high-performing infrastructure engineering teams.
- Drive the evolution of OpenAI’s in-house online data technologies, including core hyper-scale database systems, indexing technologies, and vector search.
- Anchor delivery around measurable reliability goals (SLOs, etc) to ensure system performance and resiliency.
- Champion pragmatic use of agent technology to amplify execution velocity.
- Reduce operational toil and incident frequency through better abstractions, guardrails, and self-healing systems.

## You might thrive in this role if you:
- Have a truly insatiable spirit for operational excellence, demonstrated by hands-on building and operating infrastructure with strict reliability, latency, and security requirements.
- 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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