Sr. Staff Technical Program Manager - Reliability

<p><span style="font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">P-1489</span></p> <h2><strong>About Databricks</strong></h2> <p><span style="font-size: 12pt;">At Databricks, we are passionate about empowering data teams to tackle the world's most complex challenges — from bringing the next mode of transportation to reality to accelerating the development of medical breakthroughs. We achieve this by building and operating the world's best data and AI infrastructure platform, enabling our customers to leverage deep data insights and enhance their business.</span></p> <p><strong><span style="font-size: 12pt;">The Role</span></strong></p> <p><span style="font-size: 12pt;">We are seeking an exceptional Senior Staff Technical Program Manager (TPM) for Reliability to lead the strategy, execution, and continuous improvement of our most critical Reliability initiatives across infrastructure and product engineering teams at Databricks. As Databricks scales to support thousands of customers and the world’s most data-intensive workloads, Reliability is foundational to our mission. In this role, you will lead cross-company programs that significantly enhance the reliability, performance, and operational excellence of our multi-cloud infrastructure.</span></p> <p><span style="font-size: 12pt;">This is a high-visibility, high-impact leadership role partnering closely with our most senior engineering leaders, including Reliability Program executive sponsors, senior TLs, and Engineering Managers to define Reliability strategy, set long-term goals, and execute multi-quarter programs to build the most reliable cloud platform on the planet to help our customers run their mission-critical workloads on. </span></p> <p><span style="font-size: 12pt;">To be successful, you must possess a deep understanding of large-scale distributed systems, cloud infrastructure, and engineering principles that drive operational excellence. You will leverage your background to anticipate risks, shape technical direction, and deliver complex programs across product, engineering, SRE, and cloud partner teams.</span></p> <h2><span style="font-size: 12pt;"><strong>You will have the opportunity to:</strong></span></h2> <h3><span style="font-size: 12pt;"><strong>Lead Reliability Strategy + Multi-Quarter Roadmaps</strong></span></h3> <ul> <li style="font-size: 12pt;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">Partner with senior engineering leadership to define the long-term Reliability roadmap, influence technical direction, and ensure alignment across teams.</span></li> <li style="font-size: 12pt;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">Ensure clarity and alignment on priorities across engineering teams, including Platform Engineering, Compute Fleet Management, SRE, Security, and Cloud Partnerships.</span></li> </ul> <h3><span style="font-size: 12pt;"><strong>Drive Execution of Critical Reliability Programs</strong></span></h3> <ul> <li style="font-size: 12pt;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">Own program execution end-to-end: planning, risk management, dependency mapping, trade-off decisions, status reporting, and delivery.</span></li> <li style="font-size: 12pt;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">Identify gaps in process or architecture and work with TLs to proactively drive organizational or technical improvements.</span></li> </ul> <h3><span style="font-size: 12pt;"><strong>Partner Deeply with Engineering Influence Technical Direction</strong></span></h3> <ul> <li style="font-size: 12pt;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">Using your background in infrastructure, distributed systems, or SRE to help teams make sound design and prioritization decisions.</span></li> <li style="font-size: 12pt;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">Facilitate alignment between cross-functional teams to ensure programs are technically grounded and execution-ready.</span></li> <li style="font-size: 12pt;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">Bring systems thinking to diagnose reliability bottlenecks and drive improveme ... (truncated, view full listing at source)