# Technical Program Manager (Software Engineer) at Runpod

> Lead complex cross-functional programs building Runpod's GPU cloud platform, managing risks, rollouts and reliability across engineering teams.

- Company: Runpod (runpod.io)
- Location: Remote - USA (remote)
- Places: Remote, United States
- Posted: 2026-10-13
- Work mode: Remote
- Apply: https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/runpod/06046760-4649-4821-acdf-0f89c54f88b8
- Page: https://ye.saranatour.dev/jobs/technical-program-manager-software-engineer-runpod-kn75w78g5gnt1k94zaefs2g9tx8hbg0z

## The posting

Technical Program Manager (Software Engineer)
Runpod · Remote - USA

Runpod is the AI Developer Cloud. More than one million developers, from indie researchers to teams running frontier models in production, use Runpod to experiment, train, fine-tune, deploy, and scale AI on one platform. The platform has processed more than 20 billion inference requests. We closed a $100M Series A in June 2026. We're at an inflection point for AI infrastructure, and we're building the platform the next generation of developers will depend on.

We're a small, remote-first team. We take ownership seriously, move fast, and ship work that more than a million developers rely on every day. We're looking for people who care deeply, build with urgency, and want to matter at scale.

Learn more in our CEO's funding announcement: [https://www.runpod.io/blog/one-million-developers](https://www.runpod.io/blog/one-million-developers).

We’re seeking a Technical Program Manager (TPM) who understands how distributed systems are built and why they fail, and pairs that depth with exceptional organizational and communication skills. The ideal candidate is a self-starter who thrives in a fast-paced, dynamic environment and can drive execution through ambiguity with confidence and clarity.

As a TPM at Runpod, you’ll lead complex, cross-functional programs across product and platform teams, working closely with engineering leads and stakeholders across the company. You’ll help build the core of our cloud platform: the systems that schedule, scale, route, and run customer workloads on GPU infrastructure across regions. You’ll anticipate risks early, keep teams focused on what matters, and deliver high-impact work that creates real value for our customers.

The ideal candidate is a dynamic problem solver - not a pure process follower.

**Responsibilities:**

- Partner with engineering leads to understand squad architecture, constraints, and technical debt, and build plans that reflect how the systems actually behave.
- Own planning and delivery for complex, multi-team programs: scope, sequencing, dependencies, and timelines, with close attention to cross-service and cross-region dependencies.
- Identify technical risk early (scaling limits, failure modes, capacity constraints, migration complexity) and drive mitigation before it reaches customers or commitments.
- Participate in design and architecture reviews, surfacing gaps in rollout plans, observability, and fault tolerance.
- Drive launch readiness and safe rollout of platform changes, including staged releases, rollback plans, load and failure testing, and operational handoff.
- Serve as the primary point of contact for stakeholders, with clear, regular status updates and risks escalated early alongside options and recommendations.
- Work with Data, Product, and Engineering leads to define and track success metrics for performance, reliability, utilization, and cost, tied to customer outcomes.
- Partner with SRE to build visibility into system health, and help leadership balance investment in reliability, scale, and new capabilities.
- Coordinate with Supply and Data Center teams on how capacity and infrastructure changes affect platform roadmaps.
- Run post-launch and post-incident reviews, and drive the resulting improvements to completion.

**Requirements:**

- 3+ years in technical program management or software/infrastructure engineering, leading complex programs for cloud or infrastructure products.
- Hands-on en