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Cloudflare

Senior Technical Program Manager

Cloudflare

. Lead strategic, multi-quarter initiatives within Cloudflare’s Performance and Infrastructure organization .

Posted 10/5/2026full-timeAustin • Texas • United StatesSeniorWebsite

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Core Competencies

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Demonstrates expertise in technical program management with a focus on infrastructure efficiency, reliability practices, and cross-functional collaboration. Proficient in managing complex projects, defining success metrics, and leveraging AI tools for program administration.

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Technical Program ManagementInfrastructure SystemsTelemetry/ObservabilityAgile MethodologiesAI Productivity Tools

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Hard Skills
Capacity PlanningData PipelinesTraffic ManagementSLO/SLIsProject PlanningProgram ExecutionChaos EngineeringRisk ManagementDependency ManagementUse Case Definition
Soft Skills
Excellent CommunicationSelf-StarterEmpathyJudgmentAdaptability
Tools & Technologies
ConfluenceJiraDashboardsProject Planning ToolsAI Agents
Industry Keywords
InfrastructureReliabilityPerformanceDistributed SystemsLarge-Scale Engineering

Tech Stack

Tools & technologies
Distributed Systems

About the role

Key responsibilities & impact
  • Lead strategic, multi-quarter initiatives within Cloudflare’s Performance and Infrastructure organization
  • Drive unified strategy from conception through successful execution across Product, Engineering, Capacity Planning, Finance, and Reliability
  • Gather requirements, define deliverables, report progress, manage stakeholder expectations, and identify risks and dependencies
  • Lead program planning, execution cadence, leadership reporting, and alignment for foundational infrastructure initiatives
  • Shape program vision, customer needs, use cases, success measures, and roadmap tradeoffs
  • Lead strategic initiatives focused 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, executive status reports, dashboards, and runbooks
  • Align Product, Engineering, Infrastructure, Capacity, Data, Finance, Operations, and Security teams
  • Identify tradeoffs, document decisions, and manage escalations to resolution
  • Represent internal technical users and integrate their workflows into program planning
  • Establish fleet-wide reporting for CPU, bandwidth, memory, storage I/O, and RPS utilization
  • Build automations and AI agents for routine program administration at scale
  • Coordinate dependencies across Infrastructure Engineering, Capacity Planning, Traffic Engineering, and Network Infrastructure
  • Lead end-to-end chaos engineering, including test planning, execution, and results publication
  • Coordinate readiness reviews, go/no-go decisions, and safe production resilience tests
  • Track remediation and evaluate program impact

Requirements

What you’ll need
  • 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 predictably
  • Excellent communication skills with the ability to tailor technical complexity for diverse audiences
  • Experience working across multiple time zones and multiple cross-functional teams
  • Fluency with Confluence, Jira, dashboards, and project planning tools
  • Hands-on experience or strong competency leveraging AI productivity tools and development platforms to automate routine program administration, with rigorous human-in-the-loop review of AI output
  • Comfort managing tight deadlines, changing priorities, and ambiguity
  • Experience with Agile, Waterfall, Kaizen, Scrum, or hybrid delivery methodologies
  • Ability to bring structure to ambiguity, act as a self-starter, and drive issues to resolution with empathy and sound judgment
  • Authorization to receive software or technology controlled under U.S. export laws without sponsorship for an export license, if applicable

Benefits

Comp & perks
  • Applicants who progress to the offer stage may be asked to attend an in-person interview within one of the Cloudflare Offices or Cloudflare Hubs
  • Reasonable accommodations for qualified individuals with disabilities
  • Equal employment opportunity and inclusive workplace commitment