Hiring: Engineering Manager, Online Data Systems Company: OpenAI Location: San Francisco, CA Job Posted Time: 2026-09-10 11:16:06 Target Skills & Keywords : AI About the job Required Skills: •We are seeking an Engineering Manager to lead our Online Data Systems team, responsible for our in-house database and indexing technology. This role is about shepherding a team of world-class engineers tasked with building and operating hyperscale data storage and retrieval technology. •You’ll be overseeing the delivery of extremely challenging engineering work in areas like distributed query execution, multi-region federation, self-orchestrating and self-healing services, low-level performance optimization, and more. •There are few companies in the world building this kind of technology in-house at this scale where you’ll still be getting in on the ground floor. Instead of being a cog in the machine spending months chasing small optimizations, you’ll play a major part of shaping our future. •In This Role, You Will •Build, lead, and grow high-performing infrastructure engineering teams. •Strategically drive 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 to ensure system performance and resiliency is above reproach. •Champion pragmatic use of agent technology to amplify execution velocity. Compensation: •$335,000 - $445,000 / year Interested candidates, please apply directly through the job posting on company's career page or try via AI auto apply on this platform. Don't miss this opportunity to join a forward-thinking team!