Engineering Manager, Developer Infrastructure

The Developer Infrastructure team sits within OpenAI’s Engineering Acceleration group. We build and operate the infrastructure that powers code management, validation, and integration. Our mission is to provide a highly reliable and scalable infrastructure that enables research and product teams to rapidly iterate and bring new innovations to more than a billion users while maintaining the highest standards of reliability and safety.

We’re looking for a leader to drive OpenAI’s Developer Infrastructure team. This team is responsible for how engineers build, validate, and integrate code into our mainline quickly and reliably. This includes source control, CI systems, build infrastructure, artifact storage, and pre-merge validation workflows. You’ll ensure these Tier-0 systems scale with our engineering growth, delivering a fast, trusted, and frictionless path from code to trunk.

This is a high-impact opportunity to shape one of OpenAI’s most critical technical capabilities, unlocking the speed and reliability that fuel our mission to delight users with continuous innovation.

• Drive the evolution of our Developer Infrastructure to support faster iteration cycles, improved reliability, and reduced development friction.

• Enable engineering teams and their agents to rapidly code, build, and test changes frequently with confidence.

• Scale the Infrastructure to meet the demands of a growing engineering team coupled with explosive growth in agents.

• Partner closely with Product, Infrastructure, and Research teams.

• Lead, grow, and inspire a team of engineers, setting direction and fostering a culture of operational excellence.

• Have 5+ years of experience managing teams in fast-paced, high-performance environments.

• Have 5+ years of experience working with distributed systems at scale.

• Have a strong track record of leading and delivering complex, cross-functional projects.

• Have experience building and scaling world-class engineering teams.

• Excel at coaching and developing engineers to achieve their peak potential.

• Thrive in ambiguity and rapidly changing conditions, bringing clarity and focus to complex problems.

• Care deeply about reliability, safety, and developer experience, and can translate these values into technical strategy.

Location:

Hybrid: This role is in-person at our San Francisco office 3 days a week.

About OpenAI

OpenAI 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. 

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