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Runpod

Technical Program Manager – Software Engineer

Runpod

. Partner with engineering leads to understand squad architecture, constraints, and technical debt .

Posted 10/13/2026full-timeRemote • United StatesMid-LevelSenior💰 $140,000 - $165,000 per yearWebsite

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Core Competencies

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Demonstrates expertise in technical program management, with a strong focus on cloud and infrastructure products, ensuring successful delivery of complex, multi-team programs while maintaining system reliability and performance. Proficient in managing technical risks, defining success metrics, and collaborating with cross-functional teams to drive improvements.

Highest-signal resume keywords
Technical Program ManagementCloud Infrastructure EngineeringDistributed Systems ExperienceObservability and Operational PracticesSoftware Development Lifecycle

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Hard Skills
Technical Program ManagementDistributed SystemsCloud InfrastructurePerformance MetricsRisk MitigationCapacity PlanningIncident ResponseLoad BalancingAutoscalingFailure Handling
Soft Skills
Exceptional CommunicationHighly OrganizedProactiveCalm Under Pressure
Tools & Technologies
ContainersOrchestrationNetworkingStorageCompute
Industry Keywords
Technical DebtDesign ReviewsLaunch ReadinessCross-Functional TeamsSLOs

Tech Stack

Tools & technologies
CloudDistributed Systems

About the role

Key responsibilities & impact
  • Partner with engineering leads to understand squad architecture, constraints, and technical debt
  • Own planning and delivery for complex, multi-team programs, including scope, sequencing, dependencies, and timelines
  • Identify technical risks and drive mitigation before customer or delivery impact
  • Participate in design and architecture reviews
  • Drive launch readiness and safe rollout of platform changes, including staged releases, rollback plans, load and failure testing, and operational handoff
  • Serve as the primary stakeholder contact with regular status updates and early risk escalation
  • Define and track success metrics for performance, reliability, utilization, and cost
  • Partner with SRE to build visibility into system health and balance reliability, scale, and new capabilities
  • Coordinate with Supply and Data Center teams on capacity and infrastructure changes
  • Run post-launch and post-incident reviews and drive improvements to completion

Requirements

What you’ll need
  • 3+ years in technical program management or software/infrastructure engineering, leading complex programs for cloud or infrastructure products
  • Hands-on engineering experience on production distributed systems
  • Deep understanding of consistency and availability tradeoffs, queueing, scheduling, autoscaling, load balancing, failure handling, and performance at scale
  • Hands-on familiarity with compute, networking, storage, containers and orchestration, and multi-region architectures
  • Ability to read architecture docs, review designs, and hold credible technical conversations with senior engineers
  • Experience with observability and operational practices, including metrics, logging, tracing, SLOs, and incident response
  • Proven track record delivering multiple high-impact programs across 3+ cross-functional teams from planning through launch
  • Strong quantitative skills and ability to turn system and cost data into clear recommendations
  • Deep understanding of the software development lifecycle
  • Exceptional written and verbal communication
  • Highly organized, proactive, and calm under pressure
  • Eligible to work in the United States
  • Must not require employment visa sponsorship
  • Technical degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or related field (preferred)

Benefits

Comp & perks
  • Meaningful equity; everyone on the team receives stock options
  • Generous medical, dental & vision plans
  • Flexible PTO
  • Remote-first work environment
  • Inclusive, collaborative teams utilizing Slack
  • Passionate team on the cutting edge of AI infrastructure
  • $1,200 Home Office & Equipment Stipend