Technical Program Manager Software Engineer
Runpod is an AI developer cloud providing GPU compute, serverless inference, Pods, and clusters for building, training, fine-tuning, deploying, and scaling AI workloads.
Maintainer signals as of 9/25/2026
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About Runpod
Runpod Inc. operates a globally distributed GPU cloud platform for AI developers, offering on-demand GPU infrastructure and serverless services across the AI development lifecycle.
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About the Role
You will lead planning and delivery for complex cross-functional platform programs. You will identify and mitigate technical risks, participate in design reviews, coordinate safe rollouts, track success metrics, partner with SRE, and drive post-launch and post-incident improvements.
Requirements
- 3+ years in technical program management or software and infrastructure engineering
- Production distributed systems
- Consistency and availability tradeoffs
- Queueing, scheduling, autoscaling, load balancing, failure handling, and performance at scale
- Cloud compute, networking, storage, containers, orchestration, and multi-region architectures
- Architecture and design review
- Observability, metrics, logging, tracing, SLOs, and incident response
- Software development lifecycle
- Program delivery across cross-functional teams
- Written and verbal communication
Responsibilities
- Partner with engineering leads on architecture, constraints, and technical debt
- Own planning and delivery for multi-team programs
- Identify and mitigate technical risks
- Participate in design and architecture reviews
- Drive launch readiness and safe platform rollouts
- Provide stakeholder updates and escalate risks
- Define and track performance, reliability, utilization, and cost metrics
- Partner with SRE on system-health visibility
- Coordinate capacity and infrastructure changes with Supply and Data Center teams
- Run post-launch and post-incident reviews and drive improvements
Benefits
- Equity through stock options
- Medical, dental, and vision plans
- Flexible PTO
- Remote-first work
- Home office and equipment stipend of $1,200