# Technical Program Manager (Software Engineer) at Runpod

- Company: Runpod
- What the company does: AI infrastructure with on-demand GPUs and serverless compute. Run training, inference, and batch workloads on the cloud with Runpod. Backed by AI Grant.
- Company website: https://www.runpod.io/
- Type: Startups (AI role)
- Level: Senior
- Location: Remote - USA
- Work setup: Remote
- Pay: $140K to $195K base salary per year (USD)
- Posted: 2026-10-13
- Apply by: 2026-11-27
- Apply: https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/runpod/06046760-4649-4821-acdf-0f89c54f88b8?utm_source=1752vc&utm_medium=careers
- Page: https://www.1752.vc/careers/jobs/runpod-technical-program-manager-software-engineer/

## About the role

Partner with engineering leads to understand squad architecture, constraints, and technical debt, and build plans that reflect how the systems actually behave. Own planning and delivery for complex, multi-team programs: scope, sequencing, dependencies, and timelines, with close attention to cross-service and cross-region dependencies. Found on 1752vc Careers, the job board for startup and VC roles.

## What they're looking for

- 3+ years in technical program management or software/infrastructure engineering, leading complex programs for cloud or infrastructure products
- Hands-on engineering experience on production distributed systems, with deep understanding of consistency and availability tradeoffs, queueing, scheduling, autoscaling, load balancing, failure handling, and performance at scale
- Hands-on familiarity with cloud infrastructure fundamentals: compute, networking, storage, containers and orchestration, and multi-region architectures
- Ability to read architecture docs, review designs, and hold credible technical conversations with senior engineers, including on reliability, latency, and capacity tradeoffs
- Experience with observability and operational practices (metrics, logging, tracing, SLOs, incident response) and using them to drive program decisions
- Proven track record of delivering multiple high-impact programs across 3+ cross-functional teams, from planning through launch

Tags: Engineering

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