Databricks · 23 hours ago
Sr. Staff Technical Program Manager - Reliability
San Francisco, CA
Full-time
Onsite
Senior Level, Lead/Staff
$191K/yr - $253K/yr
10+ years expDatabricks is a leading data and AI company that empowers data teams to tackle complex challenges. They are seeking a Senior Staff Technical Program Manager for Reliability to lead critical reliability initiatives across infrastructure and product engineering, enhancing the reliability and performance of their multi-cloud infrastructure.
AnalyticsArtificial Intelligence (AI)Data StorageInformation TechnologyMachine Learning
Responsibilities
Lead Reliability Strategy + Multi-Quarter Roadmaps
Partner with senior engineering leadership to define the long-term Reliability roadmap, influence technical direction, and ensure alignment across teams
Ensure clarity and alignment on priorities across engineering teams, including Platform Engineering, Compute Fleet Management, SRE, Security, and Cloud Partnerships
Drive Execution of Critical Reliability Programs
Own program execution end-to-end: planning, risk management, dependency mapping, trade-off decisions, status reporting, and delivery
Identify gaps in process or architecture and work with TLs to proactively drive organizational or technical improvements
Partner Deeply with Engineering & Influence Technical Direction
Using your background in infrastructure, distributed systems, or SRE to help teams make sound design and prioritization decisions
Facilitate alignment between cross-functional teams to ensure programs are technically grounded and execution-ready
Bring systems thinking to diagnose reliability bottlenecks and drive improvements to scalability, fault tolerance, automation, and operational tooling
Elevate Reliability Culture Across the Organization
Drive adoption of reliability best practices across engineering teams - including error budgets, incident reviews, design-for-resilience patterns, and operational readiness
Define and implement program governance, repeatable processes, metrics, and documentation to scale reliability efforts across teams
Evangelize reliability expectations and engineer-empowering processes that reduce operational load and improve incident preparedness
Qualification
Required
10+ years of experience managing and delivering large-scale technical programs in cloud infrastructure, distributed systems, SRE, or platform engineering environments
Experience developing infrastructure at two or more hyperscale cloud providers (e.g., AWS, Azure, GCP), with knowledge of cloud primitives, multi-AZ/region architecture, and control plane/data plane patterns
Demonstrated success leading Reliability Programs at scale - including availability, failover, operational excellence, incident reduction, or dependency hardening
Strong understanding of infrastructure, distributed systems, or SRE practices; previous engineering or SRE experience is highly preferred
Experience partnering directly with senior engineering leadership to define strategy and drive large, multi-team initiatives
Ability to translate ambiguous goals into actionable program plans with clear milestones, KPIs, and success metrics
Demonstrated ability to manage complex cross-organizational dependencies, technical risks, and multi-quarter timelines
Experience delivering programs across multiple clouds and/or large-scale cloud-native services
Experience building and scaling engineering processes, operational frameworks, and stakeholder alignment mechanisms
Preferred
Background in distributed systems engineering, SRE, platform infrastructure, or cloud services
Experience with large-scale compute fleets, container orchestration, autoscaling, or control-plane architecture
Familiarity with reliability methodologies such as SLOs, error budgets, chaos engineering, failure mode analysis, and incident management frameworks
Expertise using Jira or equivalent tools for program tracking and execution
Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or related technical field; advanced degree preferred
Benefits
Annual performance bonus
Equity
Company
Databricks
Databricks is a data and AI platform that unifies data engineering, analytics, and machine learning on a lakehouse architecture.
5001-10000 employees
H1B Sponsorship
Databricks has a track record of offering H1B sponsorships. Please note that this does not
guarantee sponsorship for this specific role. Below presents additional info for your
reference. (Data Powered by US Department of Labor)
Distribution of Different Job Fields Receiving Sponsorship
Represents job field similar to this job
Trends of Total Sponsorships
2025 (385)
2024 (319)
2023 (227)
2022 (222)
2021 (166)
2020 (64)
Funding
Current Stage
Late StageTotal Funding
$25.81BKey Investors
Counterpoint GlobalFranklin TempletonAndreessen Horowitz
2025-12-16Series Unknown· $4B
2025-09-08Series Unknown· $1B
2025-01-13Debt Financing· $5.25B
Leadership Team
Ali Ghodsi
CEO and Co-founder
David Conte
Chief Financial Officer
Recent News
Crunchbase News
2026-01-09
2026-01-08
Destination CRM
2026-01-07
Company data provided by crunchbase