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Sr. Staff Technical Program Manager - Reliability

Databricks· Engineering
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Hybrid (Mountain View, CA; San Francisco, CA), Hybrid (Remote / Hybrid)$189.8k - $256.2kFull-timePosted 7mo ago

About the role

Senior Staff Technical Program Manager (TPM) for Reliability leading strategy, execution, and continuous improvement of reliability initiatives across infrastructure and product engineering at Databricks.

Responsibilities

  • Lead Reliability Strategy + Multi-Quarter Roadmaps: Define long-term reliability roadmap, influence technical direction, align priorities across Platform Engineering, Compute Fleet Management, SRE, Security, and Cloud Partnerships.
  • Drive Execution of Critical Reliability Programs: Own end-to-end program execution including planning, risk management, dependency mapping, trade-off decisions, status reporting, and delivery.
  • Partner Deeply with Engineering & Influence Technical Direction: Leverage infrastructure, distributed systems, or SRE background to guide design and prioritization; align cross-functional teams; diagnose bottlenecks to improve scalability, fault tolerance, automation, and tooling.
  • Elevate Reliability Culture Across the Organization: Promote reliability best practices (error budgets, incident reviews, resilience patterns, operational readiness); define governance, processes, metrics, and documentation to scale reliability; evangelize reliability expectations and reduce operational load.

Qualifications

  • 10+ years of experience managing and delivering large-scale technical programs in cloud infrastructure, distributed systems, SRE, or platform engineering environments.
  • Experience developing infrastructure at two or more hyperscale cloud providers (e.g., AWS, Azure, GCP) with knowledge of cloud primitives, multi-AZ/region architecture, and control plane/data plane patterns.
  • Demonstrated success leading Reliability Programs at scale (availability, failover, operational excellence, incident reduction, or dependency hardening).
  • Strong understanding of infrastructure, distributed systems, or SRE practices; prior engineering or SRE experience preferred.
  • Experience partnering with senior engineering leadership to define strategy and drive large, multi-team initiatives.
  • Ability to translate ambiguous goals into actionable program plans with clear milestones, KPIs, and success metrics.
  • Demonstrated ability to manage complex cross-organizational dependencies, technical risks, and multi-quarter timelines.
  • Experience delivering programs across multiple clouds and/or large-scale cloud-native services.
  • Experience building and scaling engineering processes, operational frameworks, and stakeholder alignment mechanisms.

Skills

Required:Program managementCloud infrastructureDistributed systems / SRE

Benefits

  • Benefit details provided in regional document linked in the job description.
Last updated Sep 10, 2026. Interested? Apply on the company site.

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