Senior Technical Program Manager (Public Cloud)

Location: Hybrid, with presence in the San Jose, San Francisco, or Bellevue office 4 days per week; work from home day is Tuesday.

Annual salary: $278,000–$370,000 in San Jose or San Francisco; $226,000–$302,000 in Bellevue.

Company

Lambda builds AI cloud infrastructure for AI researchers, enterprises, and hyperscalers, with a focus on making compute widely accessible.

What you will do

• Own complex public cloud programs from planning through rollout, delivering roadmap commitments on schedule and with high quality.
• Translate product priorities and engineering strategy into execution plans with outcomes, milestones, owners, decision points, and delivery cadence.
• Partner with engineers on architecture, estimates, sequencing, dependencies, risks, and tradeoffs.
• Coordinate launches across compute, networking, storage, and cloud control plane services with Engineering, Product, Infrastructure, SRE, Security, and Support.
• Drive readiness, release gates, rollout plans, operational handoffs, escalation, and cross-team dependency resolution.
• Define launch success measures for availability, provisioning, performance, and customer experience, using post-launch reviews to improve delivery.

Requirements

• At least 8 years of experience in technical program leadership or engineering management, including a record of shipping complex cloud services.
• Strong understanding of software delivery, infrastructure architecture, and distributed systems sufficient to assess implementation choices and challenge engineering assumptions.
• Experience with GPU infrastructure, machine learning platforms, or orchestration systems such as Kubernetes.
• Ability to independently lead several teams through ambiguous requirements, competing priorities, and delivery risks while influencing decisions without direct authority.
• Clear communication of technical issues and business consequences to engineering teams and senior stakeholders, adapting the level of detail.
• Effective use of delivery methods and planning tools to improve execution and ownership.

Nice to have

• Experience launching customer-facing infrastructure services, including APIs, tenant isolation, access controls, metering, or billing.
• Familiarity with GPU capacity planning, fleet lifecycle, cloud service reliability, and production incident follow-up.
• Experience establishing repeatable planning and delivery practices in a growing organization.

Culture & Benefits

• Flexible paid time off, health, dental, and vision coverage, and generous cash and equity compensation.
• Wellness and commuter stipends are available for select roles.
• 401(k) plan with a 2% company match for USA employees.
• Lambda was founded in 2012, has more than 500 employees, and is growing rapidly.