OpenAI•19 days ago
Engineering Manager, Core Services
Recruiter Fit Breakdown & Candid Summary
1
This role is for a seasoned engineering leader with deep expertise in distributed systems and production infrastructure.
2
The ideal candidate has a strong technical background in building platform-level services and a proven track record of managing high-performing teams in high-stakes environments.
3
This is not a pure people-management role; it requires significant technical involvement in architecture and operational strategy.
4
Candidates without experience in large-scale production reliability or distributed systems architecture will likely not be a fit.
Role Responsibilities
- 1Manage and grow a high-performing team of infrastructure engineers.
- 2Lead the development and operation of large-scale, mission-critical production platforms.
- 3Establish operational rigor through SLOs, incident response, and capacity planning.
- 4Define technical direction for orchestration, workflow, and storage/blob services.
- 5Collaborate with product engineering and infrastructure stakeholders to scale systems and organizational maturity.
Skills Matrix
Must-Have Skills
Distributed Systems
Engineering Management(people management)
Infrastructure Engineering
Production Reliability(SRE)
Cloud Infrastructure(multi-cloud)
Nice-to-Have Skills
Orchestration(workflow execution)
Storage Systems(blob storage)
Capacity Planning
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