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Senior Manager, Technical Program Management (Data, Reliability & Developer Experience)

Airbnb· Infrastructure TPM
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Hybrid (United States)$232k - $282kFull-timePosted 2w ago

About the role

Senior Manager of Technical Program Management leading a team of TPMs across Data Infrastructure, Reliability Engineering, and Developer Experience to drive multi-org programs and ensure a robust, highly available, and transparent Airbnb platform.

Responsibilities

  • Shape and influence the technical direction of projects, ensuring stakeholder needs are met with high-quality standards.
  • Drive phased rollouts and large-scale platform migrations from pilot through adoption to deprecation with clear exit criteria and minimal disruption to product teams.
  • Balance broad outcome-driven thinking with attention to critical details, prioritizing where deep focus is necessary.
  • Define and secure stakeholder alignment on clear, measurable success criteria (e.g., availability/SLOs, CI/merge latency, cost per workload, adoption) and hold programs accountable.
  • Regularly assess risks and opportunities, and devise proactive mitigation strategies.
  • Maintain transparent and effective communication channels with stakeholders.
  • Present outcomes and updates to senior leadership, articulating trade-offs, risks, and opportunities.
  • Hire, develop, and coach a team of senior TPMs, and set operating standards for planning, execution, and portfolio reporting.
  • Lead programs that prepare infrastructure for AI-driven scale (CI, source control, merge systems, agentic developer workflows, AI-ready data platforms).
  • Partner with engineering and finance on infrastructure efficiency programs (utilization, cost attribution, workload-normalized cost reduction).
  • Drive cross-org reliability programs such as incident review follow-through, SLO adoption, and deployment-safety rollouts.
  • Own Infrastructure planning rhythms (OKRs, roadmap reviews, dependency mapping) across Data, Reliability, and Developer Experience.

Qualifications

  • 12+ years in technical program management, software engineering, or SRE, including 5+ years leading and mentoring TPMs or managers of TPMs
  • Demonstrated ability to work through ambiguity to detailed solutions and drive initiatives to completion
  • Strong technical grounding in at least two of: distributed data systems (Spark, Trino, Flink/Kafka, Iceberg), Kubernetes and cloud infrastructure, observability platforms, or CI/CD/build systems/monorepos
  • Track record of leading multi-quarter, multi-team platform migrations or deprecations at scale
  • Self-motivated, proactive, and able to adapt with teams on different cadences
  • Sound business judgment, strong analytical skills, and ability to influence and own data-driven analyses
  • Experience delivering infrastructure for AI workloads or AI-assisted engineering (feature platforms, LLM gateways, agentic tooling, scaling CI/CD for AI code)
  • Deep familiarity with progressive delivery, canary and automated rollback, SLOs and error budgets, incident management
  • Excellent written and oral communication and people skills to influence stakeholders.

Skills

Required:Technical program managementAmbiguity management
Nice to have:Distributed data systemsKubernetes and cloud infrastructureObservability and CI/CD

Benefits

  • Reasonable accommodations available in recruitment process
Last updated Oct 22, 2026. Interested? Apply on the company site.
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About Airbnb

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Founded in August of 2008 and based in San Francisco, California, Airbnb is a trusted community marketplace for people to list, discover, and book unique accommodations around the world — online or from a mobile phone. Whether an apartment for a night, a castle for a week, or a villa for a month, Airbnb connects people to unique travel experiences, at any price point, in more than 33,000 cities and 192 countries. And with world-class customer service and a growing community of users, Airbnb is the easiest way for people to monetize their extra space and showcase it to an audience of millions. No global movement springs from individuals. It takes an entire team united behind something big. Together, we work hard, we laugh a lot, we brainstorm nonstop, we use hundreds of Post-Its a week, and we give the best high-fives in town. Headquartered in San Francisco, we have satellite offices in Dublin, London, Barcelona, Paris, Milan, Copenhagen, Berlin, Moscow, São Paolo, Sydney, and Singapore.

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