Senior Staff Technical Program Manager - Reliability

Databricks; California (MO); On-site; USD 190,000 - 256,000; Full time

Job summary

Databricks is seeking an exceptional Senior Staff Technical Program Manager (TPM) for Reliability to lead strategy, execution and continual improvement of our Reliability initiatives across infrastructure and product engineering teams.

This role partners with senior engineering leaders to define roadmaps and drive multi-quarter programs that make our cloud platform highly reliable for thousands of data-intensive workloads.

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 (AWS/Azure/GCP) with multi-AZ/region patterns.
• Successful leadership of Reliability Programs at scale, including availability, failover, and incident reduction.
• Strong understanding of infrastructure, distributed systems, or SRE practices; engineering background preferred.
• Experience partnering with senior engineering leadership to define strategy and drive multi-team initiatives.
• Ability to translate ambiguous goals into actionable program plans with clear milestones and KPIs.
• Proven ability to manage cross-organizational dependencies and multi-quarter timelines.
• Experience delivering programs across multiple clouds and cloud-native services.
• Experience building and scaling engineering processes and governance for reliability.

Responsibilities

• Lead long-term Reliability roadmap and multi-quarter plans.
• Coordinate priorities across Platform Eng, Compute Fleet, SRE, Security, and Cloud.
• Own end-to-end program execution: planning, risk management, and delivery.
• Identify gaps and drive organizational or technical improvements.
• Foster governance, metrics, and documentation for reliability across teams.

Skills

Technical program mgmt

Cloud infrastructure

SRE

Distributed systems

Leadership

Education

Bachelor's degree in CS/Engineering

Tools

Jira

Job description

Databricks is seeking an exceptional Senior Staff Technical Program Manager (TPM) for Reliability to lead strategy, execution and continual improvement of our Reliability initiatives across infrastructure and product engineering teams.

This role partners with senior engineering leaders to define roadmaps and drive multi-quarter programs that make our cloud platform highly reliable for thousands of data-intensive workloads.