Senior Staff TPM, Reliability & Cloud Platform Strategy

Databricks Inc.; Bellevue (WA); On-site; USD 180,000 - 243,000; Full time

Job summary

Databricks is seeking a Senior Staff Technical Program Manager for Reliability to lead strategy, execution, and continuous improvement of critical reliability initiatives across infrastructure and product engineering. This role partners with senior engineering leaders to define long-term reliability roadmaps and drive multi-quarter programs.

You will own end-to-end program delivery, manage risks, and align cross-functional teams including SRE, Platform, Compute, and Security.

Qualifications

• 10+ years of experience managing and delivering large-scale technical programs.
• Experience developing infrastructure at two or more hyperscale cloud providers (AWS/Azure/GCP).
• Demonstrated success leading Reliability Programs at scale (availability, failover, incident reduction).
• Ability to translate ambiguous goals into actionable program plans with clear milestones and KPIs.

Responsibilities

• Lead Reliability Strategy + Multi-Quarter Roadmaps across platforms.
• Drive end-to-end execution: planning, risk management, dependencies, trade-offs, status reporting.
• Partner with senior leaders to define strategy and drive multi-team initiatives.
• Promote reliability culture through best practices, governance, metrics, and readiness.

Skills

Program management

Cloud infrastructure

Distributed systems

SRE practices

Leadership with eng leaders

Strategic planning

Education

Bachelor's degree in CS/Engineering

Tools

Jira

Job description

Databricks is seeking a Senior Staff Technical Program Manager for Reliability to lead strategy, execution, and continuous improvement of critical reliability initiatives across infrastructure and product engineering. This role partners with senior engineering leaders to define long-term reliability roadmaps and drive multi-quarter programs.

You will own end-to-end program delivery, manage risks, and align cross-functional teams including SRE, Platform, Compute, and Security.