Senior Manager, Technical Program Management, Data, Reliability & Developer Experience

Airbnb

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Location
Remote
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$232,000–$282,000 / yr
Posted
21 days ago
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Above market

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About Airbnb

Founded in 2008 and formerly known as AirBed & Breakfast, Inc., Airbnb is a global marketplace connecting travelers with hosts who offer unique accommodations, ranging from private rooms to entire homes. It operates a massive digital platform for booking stays, experiences, and travel services worldwide.

Airbnb currently has 46 open roles on FindRole.

Listed pay typically runs $206,000–$255,000 across 44 roles with salary data.

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TL;DR · Senior Manager, Technical Program Management, Data, Reliability & Developer Experience

The Senior Manager, Technical Program Management (Data, Reliability & Developer Experience) leads a team of TPMs within the Infrastructure TPM team. This role involves driving multi-org programs across Data Infrastructure, Reliability Engineering, and Developer Experience to ensure the platform remains robust, highly available, and transparent. You will manage large-scale platform migrations, shape technical directions, and oversee infrastructure planning rhythms like OKRs and roadmap reviews. Key responsibilities include leading programs for AI-driven scale, managing cost attribution, and overseeing incident review follow-through. Required expertise includes distributed data systems like Spark, Trino, Flink/Kafka, and Iceberg, alongside Kubernetes, cloud infrastructure, observability platforms, and CI/CD build systems. You will solve complex problems regarding data stack efficiency, deployment-safety platforms, and end-to-end developer workflows for engineers and AI agents.

What you'll do

  • Lead a team of TPMs to drive multi-org programs across Data Infrastructure, Reliability Engineering, and Developer Experience.
  • Shape the technical direction of projects to ensure high-quality standards and stakeholder needs are met.
  • Drive phased rollouts and large-scale platform migrations from pilot through adoption to deprecation.
  • Define and secure stakeholder alignment on measurable success criteria such as availability, SLOs, and cost per workload.
  • Hire, develop, and coach a team of senior TPMs while setting operating standards for planning and execution.
  • Lead programs to prepare infrastructure for AI-driven scale, including data platforms and agentic developer workflows.
  • Partner with engineering and finance on infrastructure efficiency programs involving utilization and cost attribution.
  • Own infrastructure planning rhythms including OKRs, roadmap reviews, and dependency mapping across key technical domains.

What we're looking for

  • 12+ years of experience in technical program management, software engineering, or SRE.
  • 5+ years of experience leading and mentoring TPMs or managers of TPMs.
  • Strong technical grounding in at least two areas: distributed data systems, Kubernetes/cloud infrastructure, observability, or CI/CD.
  • Track record of leading multi-quarter, multi-team platform migrations or deprecations at scale.
  • Experience delivering infrastructure for AI workloads or AI-assisted engineering.
  • Deep familiarity with progressive delivery, canary/automated rollbacks, SLOs, error budgets, and incident management.
  • Proven ability to work through ambiguity to identify paths forward and drive initiatives to completion.
  • Excellent written and oral business communication skills with the ability to influence stakeholders.

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