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Sr. Staff Technical Program Manager - Reliability

Databricks
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Hybrid (Bellevue, Washington; Seattle, Washington)$180.2k - $243.3kPosted 7mo ago

About the role

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

Responsibilities

  • Lead Reliability Strategy + Multi-Quarter Roadmaps: Define long-term reliability roadmap, influence technical direction, ensure alignment 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; drive organizational or technical improvements where gaps exist.
  • Partner Deeply with Engineering & Influence Technical Direction: Leverage background in infrastructure, distributed systems, or SRE to guide design and prioritization; align cross-functional teams for technically grounded, execution-ready programs; diagnose bottlenecks and drive scalability, fault tolerance, automation, and tooling improvements.
  • Elevate Reliability Culture Across the Organization: Promote reliability best practices (error budgets, incident reviews, design-for-resilience, operational readiness); establish governance, repeatable processes, metrics, and documentation; reduce operational load and improve incident preparedness.

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, dependency hardening).
  • Strong understanding of infrastructure, distributed systems, or SRE practices; previous 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:Reliability program managementCloud infrastructureSRE / distributed systems
Last updated Sep 10, 2026. Interested? Apply on the company site.

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