Technical Program Manager, Storage & Data Infrastructure
OpenAIVisit OpenAI website
AI research and deployment company building and deploying frontier AI products, including ChatGPT, Codex, and its API platform.
41 current maintainers27 active leads7 new active leads120 lead step-downs17 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 independently define and lead programs across data platforms, online databases and storage infrastructure at exabyte scale. You'll translate model and product needs into architecture requirements, drive repeatable scale units, resilience, migrations and adoption with engineering teams.
Requirements
- Independently owned complex production programs in data platforms, databases or storage infrastructure
- Deep knowledge of cloud storage technologies such as Amazon S3 or Azure Blob Storage
- Understanding of the full data and storage stack
- Ability to translate needs into precise platform requirements
- Led delivery across multiple teams
- Ability to make tradeoffs using workload evidence
- Clear communication and ownership through production adoption
Responsibilities
- Translate model, product and data-platform needs into access pattern, consistency, durability and scalability requirements
- Partner with engineering to create repeatable scale units for provisioning, placement, routing and readiness
- Lead cross-stack programs across ingestion, databases, indexes and file/object storage
- Evaluate cost and efficiency as architectural inputs
- Drive resilience and recovery programs with failure scenarios and validation
- Coordinate lifecycle correctness including metadata, retention, deletion and snapshots, with privacy and access control
- Lead adoption and major migrations with staged cutovers and rollback
- Measure architecture changes through product and platform outcomes
Benefits
- Equity
- Medical, dental, and vision insurance with HSA employer contributions
- Health FSA, Dependent Care FSA, and commuter pre-tax accounts
- 401(k) with employer match
- Paid parental leave, medical and caregiver leave
- Flexible PTO
- 13+ paid company holidays and company office closures
- Mental health and wellness support
- Employer-paid basic life and disability coverage
- Annual learning and development stipend
- Daily meals in offices and meal delivery credits
- Relocation support
- Charitable donation matching and wellness stipends
