The opportunity
The Online Data team builds and operates the core online database and indexing services for OpenAI’s production AI applications, including supporting the explosive growth of ChatGPT, the #1 AI app in the world, and Codex, the fastest growing agentic development toolset in the world.
What you'll do
Build, lead, and grow high-performing infrastructure engineering teams.
Drive the 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 (SLOs, etc) to ensure: system performance and resiliency is above reproach.
Champion pragmatic use of agent technology to amplify execution velocity.
Reduce operational toil and incident frequency through better abstractions,: guardrails, and self-healing systems.
Have a truly insatiable spirit for operational excellence, demonstrated by: having your hands-on in building and operating infrastructure with strict reliability, latency, and security requirements.
What they're looking for
- 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.
