Sr Technical Program Manager

Uber; Bengaluru; Hybrid; INR 20,00,000 - 35,00,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading technology company is seeking a Senior Technical Program Manager in Bengaluru. You will oversee complex engineering initiatives, ensuring project progress and team engagement. Ideal candidates will have strong program management experience and a technical background in distributed systems. Join us in building a sophisticated infrastructure to support global operations.

Qualifications

• Proven track record as a TPM, Engineering Manager, and/or Architect in software or systems development.
• Technical proficiency with the ability to understand architecture and propose alternatives.
• Experience with online storage and database systems.

Responsibilities

• Lead project progress, resolve dependencies, and evaluate risks.
• Engage teams to achieve goals and remove obstacles.
• Contribute to multi-functional strategic planning.

Skills

Program management

Technical architecture understanding

Distributed systems

Strong organizational skills

Education

Technical degree in computer science or related field

Tools

Kubernetes

SQL

No-SQL

Job description

About the Role

Uber is looking for a Senior Technical Program Manager (TPM) that will drive structure for large complex cross-team engineering initiatives across the Platform Infrastructure Engineering teams spanning cloud, modernizing the storage stack, driving efficiencies, improving reliability, and more.

The Platform Infrastructure team is at the heart of this, supporting critical foundational, storage, search, and batch infrastructure both on-premise and in the cloud. With daily volumes experiencing exponential growth, our infrastructure platform is paramount to enabling Uber's global business. To power these diverse and critical use cases at an unparalleled scale, Uber's platform is engineered to be one of the most sophisticated in the world.

A strong TPM in this role will move fluidly from the big picture to the minutiae so that their teams can deliver strategic multi-functional technical projects. You will work with engineering managers and engineers to estimate work efforts, define milestones, and manage resources. You are a bridge and a connector for the company and will work to clarify priorities while driving teams to be highly effective and develop broad domain and technical knowledge, mentoring where needed.

What you'll do

1. Leading all aspects of project progress, resolving dependencies, evaluating risks, and communicating status to upper management and project team members.
2. Engaging and energizing your teams to achieve goals.
3. Proactively removing obstacles to drive momentum, progress, and results.
4. Identifying communication gaps, managing issues, team concerns, and providing support to teams balancing opposing priorities.
5. Contributing to the management of the multi-functional strategic planning and business planning process, leading conversations with key team members to develop concepts for strategic initiatives, and developing those into detailed program / project plans (including roadmaps, funding planning, resource planning and hiring goals).
6. Implementing continuous improvements to the engineering organization and the program management process.
7. Share program/project process frameworks, tools, and standard methodologies that can be adopted throughout the organization.

What you'll need

1. Proven track record as a TPM, Engineering Manager, and/or Architect in a software, SaaS, or systems development environment.
2. Technical proficiency with an ability to understand technical architecture, challenges, risks, and propose alternatives.
3. Strong experience in one or more large-scale distributed systems and/or Core Infrastructure systems, such as:
4. Online storage and database systems (SQL and No-SQL)
5. Search systems
6. Data Lake ecosystems (e.g., large-scale Data Analytics using object storage, YARN/Kubernetes, Spark, Presto, etc.)
7. Foundational control planes like Kubernetes
8. Technical degree in computer science or related field.
9. Key TPM skills such as:
10. Proven cross-team and cross-org program management.
11. Metrics driven: experience determining effective program KPI’s and using them to measure program success and issues.
12. Strong organizational skills to prioritize tasks without losing sight of the highest priority items.
13. Identifying process gaps, measuring progress, and balancing engineering and product efficiency with process overhead.

Preferred Qualifications

Experience as a developer which includes writing, testing, and deploying code.

We welcome people from all backgrounds who seek the opportunity to help build a future where everyone and everything can move independently. If you have the curiosity, passion, and collaborative spirit, work with us, and let’s move the world forward, together.

Offices continue to be central to collaboration and Uber’s cultural identity. Unless formally approved to work fully remotely, Uber expects employees to spend at least half of their work time in their assigned office. For certain roles, such as those based at green-light hubs, employees are expected to be in-office for 100% of their time. Please speak with your recruiter to better understand in-office expectations for this role.

*Accommodations may be available based on religious and/or medical conditions, or as required by applicable law. To request an accommodation, please reach out to [e-mail].