Technical Program Manager, Cloud & Data Platforms

Zipline; South San Francisco (CA); On-site; USD 180,000 - 240,000; Full time

Job summary

Zipline seeks a Technical Program Manager for Cloud, Data & Validation Platforms to drive end-to-end platform initiatives. You will partner with Cloud Infrastructure, Data, Maps, Autonomy, Validation, and Operations, owning migrations, data pipelines, CI/CD, and validation environments.

Based in South San Francisco, onsite four days a week with occasional launches and incident response. You will define goals, milestones, and success metrics, report progress to leadership, and ensure readiness

Qualifications

• 6+ years in technical program management leading platform or infrastructure programs.
• Experience with cloud and on‑prem infrastructure, data pipelines, CI/CD, and HIL validation.
• Proven ability to ship measurable improvements with tracked metrics.
• Strong risk management, rollout plans, and postmortems.
• Experience in safety-critical or regulated environments is a plus.

Responsibilities

• Define goals, milestones and success criteria for platform initiatives.
• Lead migrations and rollouts across cloud and on‑prem environments.
• Set dashboards, SLIs/SLOs, and run weekly program reviews.
• Coordinate incident response and postmortem remediation.
• Collaborate with Cloud, Data, Maps, Autonomy, Validation, and Ops teams.

Skills

Technical Program Management

Cloud Infrastructure

Data Pipelines

CI/CD

Platform Migrations

HIL Validation

Stakeholder Alignment

Risk Management

Education

BS in CS/EE/Systems Engineering

Job description

Zipline seeks a Technical Program Manager for Cloud, Data & Validation Platforms to drive end-to-end platform initiatives. You will partner with Cloud Infrastructure, Data, Maps, Autonomy, Validation, and Operations, owning migrations, data pipelines, CI/CD, and validation environments.

Based in South San Francisco, onsite four days a week with occasional launches and incident response. You will define goals, milestones, and success metrics, report progress to leadership, and ensure readiness