Runpod
Technical Program Manager (Software Engineer)
$140K–$195K
Remote - USA · Remote · Manager · Full-time · Posted Oct 13, 2026
- Experience
- 3+ years in technical program management or software/infrastructure engineering.
- Visa sponsorship
- Unable to sponsor employment visas; applicants must be eligible to work in the United States.
About the job
Leads cross-functional programs to plan, launch, and improve Runpod’s distributed cloud platform for scheduling, scaling, routing, and running workloads on GPU infrastructure across regions.
What you'll do
- Plan and deliver complex, multi-team programs, coordinating scope, sequencing, dependencies, and timelines.
- Identify technical risks and guide design reviews, launch readiness, safe rollouts, and operational handoffs.
- Align stakeholders on progress, risks, and success metrics; drive post-launch and post-incident improvements.
What they ask for
- 3+ years in technical program management or software/infrastructure engineering, leading complex programs for cloud or infrastructure products.
- Hands-on production distributed-systems engineering experience and understanding of cloud infrastructure fundamentals, including multi-region architectures.
- Experience delivering multiple high-impact programs across 3+ cross-functional teams from planning through launch.
- Experience with observability and operational practices, plus ability to analyze system and cost data and communicate technical tradeoffs.
Nice to have
- Experience in AI/ML developer platforms or GPU/cloud infrastructure organizations.
- Experience in a fast-paced startup environment; technical degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or related field.
Pay
($140,000 - $195,000) USD base salary
Tools
GPU, containers, orchestration, metrics, logging, tracing, SLOs
AI focus
The role supports the cloud platform used to experiment with, train, fine-tune, deploy, and scale AI workloads; no specific AI development work is stated.
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