Engineering Manager, Core Services
About the Team The Core Services organization builds and runs the mission-critical online services that product teams rely on in production. We own foundational distributed systems and platform capabilities that enable reliable execution, high-performance services, and large-scale file/data needs across our products.
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Engineering Manager, Core Services 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 Core Services organization builds and runs the mission-critical online services that product teams rely on in production. We own foundational distributed systems and platform capabilities that enable reliable execution, high-performance services, and large-scale file/data needs across our products.
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- Managing and growing a high-performing, team of infrastructure engineers.
- Leading teams building and operating large, critical production platforms, including cluster reliability, scaling, and rollout safety.
- Building and operating mission-critical distributed systems with strong operational rigor (SLOs, incident response, capacity planning, reliability).
- Setting technical direction for platform foundations such as workflow/orchestration capabilities, large-scale file/blob/storage services, and core service foundations.
- Partnering with a broad set of stakeholders, including product engineering, adjacent infrastructure teams, and (where relevant) finance/cost partners.
- Coaching, mentoring, and developing engineers and emerging leaders.
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