Description
Job Description
We are seeking a highly skilled, self-motivated Technical Program Manager (TPM) to lead strategic, multi-quarter initiatives within our Performance and Infrastructure organization.
About the Role
As a Senior Technical Program Manager (TPM), you will be responsible for a portfolio of foundational infrastructure initiatives, including program planning, execution cadence, and leadership reporting and alignment.
Key Responsibilities
- Program and Portfolio Leadership
- Lead execution for key initiatives, focusing on Infrastructure Efficiency and Engineering Reliability.
- Partner with Product and Engineering leaders to establish goals, metrics, and decision frameworks.
- Maintain program plans, roadmaps, dependency maps, and executive status reports.
- Align Product, Engineering, Infrastructure, Capacity, Data, Finance, Ops, and Security teams.
- Identify tradeoffs early, document decisions, and manage escalations to resolution.
- Represent internal technical users and integrate their workflows into program planning.
- Infrastructure Efficiency
- Establish fleet-wide reporting for resource usage (CPU, bandwidth, memory, storage I/O, and RPS) to inform capacity planning and cost-efficiency strategies.
- Build automations and AI agents to handle routine program administration at scale.
- Coordinate shared dependencies across Infrastructure Engineering, Capacity Planning, Traffic Engineering, and Network Infrastructure workstreams where resource management and tracking intersect.
- Engineering Reliability
- Lead end-to-end chaos engineering, from test planning and execution to results publication.
- Coordinate readiness reviews, go/no-go decisions, and safe execution of production resilience tests.
- Track remediation, evaluate program impact, and maintain roadmaps, dashboards, and runbooks.
Requirements
- BS+ in Computer Science, Information Technology, Engineering, or a related field, or equivalent experience.
- 5+ years of technical program management experience, preferably in infrastructure, reliability, performance, data platforms, distributed systems, or large-scale engineering environments.
- Strong technical fluency with infrastructure systems, telemetry/observability, reliability practices (SLO/SLIs), capacity planning, data pipelines, traffic management, progressive rollouts, or blast-radius reduction.
- Proven experience partnering with Product and Engineering to clarify vision, represent internal customer workflows, define use cases, prioritize requirements, and measure success.
- Ability to create realistic project plans, manage dependencies, and oversee execution to meet commitments and deliver with predictability.
- Excellent communication skills, with the ability to tailor technical complexity for diverse audiences, from engineering teams to executive leadership.
- Experience working across multiple time zones and multiple cross-functional teams.
- Fluent with Confluence, Jira, dashboards, and project planning tools.
- Hands-on experience or a strong competency in leveraging AI productivity tools and development platforms to automate routine program administration, with rigorous human-in-the-loop review of AI output.
- Comfortable managing tight deadlines, changing priorities, and ambiguity.
- Experience with various development and delivery methodologies (Agile, Waterfall, Kaizen, Scrum, or hybrid approaches).
- Ability to bring structure to ambiguity, act as a self-starter, and drive issues to resolution with empathy and sound judgment.
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