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The Senior Technical Program Manager joins the Azure Networking infrastructure team to lead the introduction of a next-generation Ethernet platform for regional networking. This role involves owning the full lifecycle of the program, from defining requirements and regional network designs to managing interoperability validation, workload testing, and staged production deployments. You will work with architects and engineers to balance performance, latency, and scalability for AI training and inference. Key technical areas include Software for Open Networking in the Cloud (SONiC), high-bandwidth networks for Fairwater-class datacenters, Remote Direct Memory Access (RDMA), and Multipath Reliable Connection (MRC). You will resolve interdependencies across network switches, host NIC capabilities, and transport technologies while ensuring operational readiness through monitoring, runbooks, and incident response metrics for large-scale infrastructure.
What does a Technical Program Manager earn in Remote?
Median $208800 from 32 postings across 13 companies.
Drive the next-generation Ethernet program by converting ambiguous needs into clear requirements and execution plans.
Shape regional network designs and topologies while balancing performance, latency, resiliency, and cost.
Develop new network designs by resolving interdependencies across switch capabilities, Ethernet fabrics, and management software.
Lead interoperability validation and workload testing to evaluate RDMA and emerging MRC capabilities.
Plan staged production deployments using compatibility validation, telemetry-based release criteria, and rehearsed rollbacks.
Establish operational-readiness criteria including support ownership, monitoring, runbooks, and incident response plans.
Align engineering and operations teams on evidence-based tradeoffs using reliability and performance metrics.
What we're looking for
Bachelor's Degree and 4+ years of experience in engineering, product/technical program management, data analysis, or product development (or equivalent).
2+ years of experience managing cross-functional and/or cross-team projects.
Ability to meet Microsoft, customer, and/or government security screening requirements.
Bachelor's Degree and 8+ years of experience in engineering, product/technical program management, data analysis, or product development (preferred).
6+ years of experience managing cross-functional and/or cross-team projects (preferred).
1+ year of experience reading and/or writing code (preferred).
1+ year of experience with datacenter networking or AI infrastructure, including topology design, high-performance Ethernet, or RDMA (preferred).
1+ year of experience bringing hardware and software together through prototyping, interoperability testing, and staged deployment (preferred).
RDMA
TCP/IP
Ethernet
DPDK
SR-IOV
SmartNICs
C++
C
Java
Python
Linux
Kernel Development
Drivers
Azure
Virtualization
Distributed Systems
Hardware-Software Integration
Firmware
High-Performance Computing