Responsibilities over areas of the codebase are delegated to Special Interest Groups (SIGs) that oversee a certain areas such as storage, networking etc. You can see various issues and PRs labeled with things like sig/storage or sig/api-machinery. These are triaged independently by each one of those groups.
Also when it comes to assigning people to review PRs, the project does not use GitHub’s native selection method and instead uses OWNER files which our CI system (Prow) understands and assigns the people according to our own set of rules.