Principal Technical Program Manager, Data, Platform & Tools

What you'll do

• Drive improvements in performance, reliability, scalability, capacity, and cost efficiency for high-scale production systems.
• Analyze architecture, code paths, and production data to develop an evidence-based technical point of view.
• Manage complex initiatives from problem framing and solution definition through execution, rollout, and measurement.
• Define success criteria, metrics, and guardrails using experimentation and telemetry to assess business impact.
• Align engineering, product, and data science stakeholders across organizational boundaries to resolve dependencies.
• Identify systemic opportunities and connect investments across different technical areas to shape long-term strategy.
• Use AI tools for research, analysis, debugging, and system understanding while applying technical judgment.

What we're looking for

• Bachelor's Degree and 6+ years of experience in engineering, product/technical program management, data analysis, or product development.
• Experience building, operating, optimizing, or troubleshooting high-scale ads serving, recommendation, machine learning, data, experimentation, or distributed systems (preferred).
• Understanding of how ads serving, inference, experimentation, data, identity/privacy, and monetization systems work together (preferred).
• Experience improving performance, reliability, capacity, or cost efficiency of compute-intensive systems (preferred).
• Experience with CPU/GPU inference (preferred).
• Ability to work hands-on with code, queries, logs, dashboards, experiments, and system documentation to develop a technical point of view (preferred).
• Versatility across technical domains and ability to use AI tools for research, analysis, debugging, and productivity (preferred).
• Experience driving cross-team change, leading high-impact programs, and mentoring other technical leaders (preferred).