Senior Manager, Technical Program Management (Data, Reliability & Developer Experience)
Remote · USD 232,000-282,000 · 5+ years experience · Remote · Posted Oct 6, 2026
At a glance
- Experience
- 5+ years experience
- Workplace
- Remote
- Location
- Remote
- Salary
- USD 232,000-282,000 · Base salary
About the role
- Airbnb is looking for a technical, hands-on, and mission-driven Senior Manager of Technical Program Management for the Infrastructure TPM team.
- You will lead a team of TPMs driving multi-org programs across Data Infrastructure, Reliability Engineering, and Developer Experience.
Responsibilities
- Shape and influence the technical direction of projects, ensuring we meet stakeholder needs while maintaining high-quality standards.
- Drive phased rollouts and large-scale platform migrations, from pilot through adoption to deprecation, with clear exit criteria and minimal disruption to product teams.
- Balance broad, outcome-driven thinking with attention to critical details, exercising sound judgment to prioritize where deep focus is necessary to ensure successful execution.
- Define and secure stakeholder alignment on clear, measurable success criteria, such as availability and SLOs, CI and merge latency, cost per workload, and adoption, and hold programs accountable to them.
- Regularly assess risks and opportunities, and devise proactive mitigation strategies to maintain momentum and project success.
- Maintain transparent and effective communication channels to keep stakeholders informed of progress, developments, and challenges.
- Expertly present outcomes and updates to senior leadership, clearly and comprehensively articulating trade-offs, risks, and emerging opportunities.
- Hire, develop, and coach a team of senior TPMs, and set operating standards for planning, execution, and portfolio reporting across Infrastructure.
- Lead programs that prepare infrastructure for AI-driven scale, from CI, source control, and merge systems that absorb higher change volume to agentic developer workflows and AI-ready data platforms.
- Own Infrastructure planning rhythms (OKRs, roadmap reviews, dependency mapping) across Data, Reliability, and Developer Experience.
Requirements
- 12+ years in technical program management, software engineering, or SRE, including 5+ years leading and mentoring TPMs or managers of TPMs
- Demonstrated ability to work through ambiguity to detailed solutions
- Strong technical grounding in at least two of: distributed data systems (Spark, Trino, Flink/Kafka, Iceberg), Kubernetes and cloud infrastructure, observability platforms, or CI/CD, build systems, and monorepos
- Track record of leading multi-quarter, multi-team platform migrations or deprecations at scale
- Self-motivated, proactive and proven ability to adapt well and work with teams having different operating cadences
- Sound business judgment, a proven ability to influence others, strong analytical skills, and a track record of taking ownership, leading data driven analyses, and influencing results
- Experience delivering infrastructure for AI workloads or AI-assisted engineering
- Deep familiarity with progressive delivery, canary and automated rollback practices, SLOs and error budgets, and incident management
- Excellent written and oral business communication and people skills, with the ability to influence stakeholders
Benefits
- Bonus
- Equity
- Benefits
- Employee Travel Credits
Workplace
- US - Remote Eligible
- May include occasional work at an Airbnb office or attendance at offsites, as agreed to with your manager
Skills
- Spark
- Trino
- Flink
- Kafka
- Iceberg
- Kubernetes
- CI/CD
