Manager, Senior Support Engineering
OpenAIVisit OpenAI website
AI research and deployment company building and deploying frontier AI products, including ChatGPT, Codex, and its API platform.
49 current maintainers29 active leads5 new active leads117 lead step-downs16 early lead departures
San Francisco, United States
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About OpenAI
OpenAI’s mission is to ensure artificial general intelligence benefits all of humanity. It consists of the nonprofit OpenAI Foundation and OpenAI Group, a public benefit corporation governed by the Foundation.
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About the Role
You will build and lead a team of senior support engineers who solve complex technical issues, serving as the final escalation point before Engineering. You will drive incident management processes, customer workload monitoring and 24x7 coverage, and collaborate with Product, Engineering and Go-To-Market teams. The role uses a hybrid model in Dublin.
Requirements
- 10+ years in technical support engineering, software engineering, or site reliability engineering
- 5+ years managing engineers or leading complex technical projects
- Deep technical experience in application development or infrastructure
- Proven ability to influence engineering and product roadmaps
- Automation-first approach with track record of scalable tooling
- Experience building trust with strategic accounts
Responsibilities
- Build and lead a team of Senior Support Engineers
- Own continuous improvement of incident management processes, tooling, and automation
- Lead workload health monitoring and alerting programs for key enterprise customers with 24x7 coverage
- Guide the team in designing automation and internal tools with an AI-first mindset
- Collaborate with Engineering, Product, and GTM to escalate, resolve, and prevent technical issues
- Represent Support Engineering in customer conversations and internal forums
- Contribute to hiring plans and global shift coverage
- Contribute to Support leadership strategy, operations, and culture
Benefits
- Relocation assistance
