Engineering Manager, Search Infrastructure - OpenAI : Job Details

About the TeamOn the Search Infrastructure team, our mission is to build the fastest, most reliable, and scalable search platform to support the needs of our users and internal systems. We serve as the backbone that connects our customers with the information they need, ensuring operational excellence through state-of-the-art infrastructure.About the RoleWe are looking for an experienced engineering manager to lead our Search Infrastructure team. In this role, you will work closely with search engineers and other infrastructure teams to scale our search platform while ensuring it remains performant and reliable. Your primary focus will be ensuring that our search system can meet the increasing demands of our customers, both in terms of scale and performance as well as foster innovation in information retrieval field.In this role, you will:Lead, mentor, and grow a team of backend and infrastructure engineers focused on building search systems.Collaborate with various teams to push the boundaries of search reliability, performance, and scale across a range of AI-driven and cloud-native services.Establish a diverse, equitable, and inclusive culture that fosters innovation, radical candor, and welcomes diverse viewpoints.You might thrive in this role if you:Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related field, or equivalent practical experience.15+ years of experience in engineering roles, with at least 8 years in leadership positions managing large-scale infrastructure or systems engineering teams.Proven track record in designing, building, and operating large-scale distributed systems.Have deep expertise in scaling search systems to support high growth and optimizing search performance and reliability.Are passionate about diversity, equity, and inclusion, with a proven track record of building inclusive teams.Have experience attracting and hiring top talent for highly competitive technical roles, and can effectively communicate a vision that excites candidates.Are comfortable with fast-changing conditions and ambiguity, and view challenges as opportunities to introduce order and structure when necessary.Experience in strategic planning and execution at a senior organizational level.Preferred:Experience with search technologies, algorithms, and indexing.Experience with Kubernetes, and familiarity with cloud infrastructure (AWS, GCP, Azure).Proven track record in improving the reliability, scalability, and performance of large distributed systems.Prior experience in hyper-growth companies and scaling engineering teams in that environment.About OpenAIOpenAI is an AI research and deployment company dedicated to ensuring that general-purpose artificial intelligence benefits all of humanity. We push the boundaries of the capabilities of AI systems and seek to safely deploy them to the world through our products. AI is an extremely powerful tool that must be created with safety and human needs at its core, and to achieve our mission, we must encompass and value the many different perspectives, voices, and experiences that form the full spectrum of humanity.We are an equal opportunity employer and do not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, age, veteran status, disability or any other legally protected status.For US Based Candidates: Pursuant to the San Francisco Fair Chance Ordinance, we will consider qualified applicants with arrest and conviction records.We are committed to providing reasonable accommodations to applicants with disabilities, and requests can be made via this link.At OpenAI, we believe artificial intelligence has the potential to help people solve immense global challenges, and we want the upside of AI to be widely shared. Join us in shaping the future of technology.#J-18808-Ljbffr