
Staff Technical Program Manager, Infrastructure
Posted Aug 12

Posted Aug 12
This is a fully remote position, open to applicants in Canada.
β’ Lead cross-functional development initiatives from concept through to delivery across various organizational teams.
β’ Enhance the software delivery lifecycle while overseeing software deliverables.
β’ Align and engage Software Engineering, Machine Learning, Data Science, Product, and Finance stakeholders on large-scale infrastructure projects.
β’ Anticipate technical risks, identify dependencies, resolve ambiguities, and eliminate obstacles.
β’ Provide data-driven updates to senior leadership regarding program health, milestones, risks, and change control.
β’ Design and optimize organizational mechanisms to boost delivery velocity and promote engineering best practices.
β’ Collaborate with engineering teams to enhance availability guardrails, including SLAs and SLOs.
β’ Facilitate post-incident root-cause analyses to maximize uptime and minimize MTTR.
β’ Establish automated monitoring for cloud spending and drive initiatives to reduce infrastructure costs.
β’ Mentor and nurture talent within the program management function.
β’ Translate business requirements into architectural decisions.
β’ 7+ years of technical program management experience with a focus on cloud infrastructure, reliability, or platform engineering at scale.
β’ Proven experience managing large, multi-team software programs across globally distributed organizations and varying time zones.
β’ Strong technical foundation in back-end architectural systems and scaling platform ecosystems.
β’ Experience leading technical discussions and contributing to design decisions.
β’ Exceptional written and verbal communication skills suited for both technical and non-technical audiences.
β’ Ability to influence teams without direct authority, manage competing priorities, and navigate through ambiguity.
β’ Previous experience as a Software Developer, Site Reliability Engineer, or DevOps Engineer is preferred.
β’ Familiarity with infrastructure-as-code, global telemetry/monitoring tools, and distributed database scaling is preferred.
β’ Experience in driving large-scale migrations and decoupling monolithic backend databases and codebases is preferred.
β’ Familiarity with AI technologies or automated tooling in engineering workflows is preferred.
β’ Strong product acumen for advocating platform infrastructure initiatives and translating technical achievements into business value.
β’ Must reside and work remotely from Canada.
β’ Must be authorized to work in Canada.
β’ English language proficiency is required.
β’ Competitive base salary ranging from CA$125K to CA$172K.
β’ Opportunities for discretionary annual performance bonuses.
β’ Equity participation, subject to applicable plan terms and eligibility requirements.
β’ Equal Opportunity Employer.
β’ Reasonable accommodations during the application or hiring process.
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