# Engineering Manager, Core Services

**Company:** [OpenAI](https://hotfix.jobs/companies/openai)
**Location:** San Francisco, CA
**Role:** Engineering Management
**Salary:** $293k – $385k/yr
**Experience:** 5+ years
**Skills:** Distributed Systems, Infrastructure, Workflow Orchestration, Cloud Computing, Cloud Platforms, Storage Systems, Blob Storage, SLOs, Incident Response, Capacity Planning, Cluster Reliability, Platform Engineering
**Posted:** 2026-08-31

> Leads and grows infrastructure engineering teams responsible for highly reliable, large-scale distributed systems and core production platforms. The role requires experience operating mission-critical services, building platform or storage infrastructure across multiple clouds, and strong technical and people leadership.

## Job Description

## Responsibilities
- Manage and grow a high-performing team of infrastructure engineers.
- Lead teams building and operating critical production platforms, including cluster reliability, scaling, and rollout safety.
- Build and operate mission-critical distributed systems with strong operational rigor, including SLOs, incident response, capacity planning, and reliability.
- Set technical direction for platform foundations such as workflow and orchestration capabilities, large-scale file, blob, and storage services, and core service foundations.
- Partner with product engineering, adjacent infrastructure teams, and finance or cost partners.
- Coach, mentor, and develop engineers and emerging leaders.

## Requirements
- 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, such as orchestration or workflow-execution systems, and/or large-scale storage, blob, or file infrastructure.
- Experience building systems spanning multiple cloud environments.
- Strong technical ability and a focus on scalable, reliable systems and operational health.
- Ability to own problems end-to-end and move quickly in ambiguous environments with competing priorities.

## Compensation
- Annual salary range: $293,000–$385,000.

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