Technical Program Manager: Cloud Infra & Validation

Zipline; 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 partner with Cloud Infrastructure, Data, Maps, Autonomy, Validation, and Operations. You will own platform initiatives from cloud migrations to HIL validation, delivering measurable improvements.

Based in South San Francisco, you will be onsite 4+ days/week and ready for occasional launches and incident response, enabling safe, scalable fleet deployments for hospitals, retailers, and government customers.

Qualifications

• Must be able to convene technical and ops stakeholders and drive binding decisions.
• Comfortable with on‑call coordination for launches and occasional off‑hours work.
• Track record of owning platform, cloud infrastructure, data, or validation programs across multiple teams.

Responsibilities

• Own end‑to‑end programs for platform initiatives spanning cloud/on‑prem migrations, data pipelines, CI/CD latency, and HIL throughput improvements.
• Define goals, milestones, and success criteria with measurable outcomes; report progress to leadership.
• Lead migrations and rollouts, including migration plans, rollback strategies, runbooks, and operator training.
• Set and report program metrics; create dashboards and weekly reviews; ensure rollout readiness gates.

Skills

Stakeholder management

Tradeoff decisions

Cloud & on‑prem infrastructure

On‑call coordination

Developer productivity tooling

Education

BS in CS/EE/Systems Engineering

Tools

CI/CD systems

Telemetry backplanes

Simulation/HIL environments

Job description

Zipline seeks a Technical Program Manager for Cloud, Data & Validation Platforms to partner with Cloud Infrastructure, Data, Maps, Autonomy, Validation, and Operations. You will own platform initiatives from cloud migrations to HIL validation, delivering measurable improvements.

Based in South San Francisco, you will be onsite 4+ days/week and ready for occasional launches and incident response, enabling safe, scalable fleet deployments for hospitals, retailers, and government customers.