# Senior Technical Program Manager, Infrastructure  (TPM)

**Company:** [Glean](https://hotfix.jobs/companies/glean)
**Location:** San Francisco, CA, Mountain View, CA
**Role:** Technical Program Management
**Salary:** $198k – $236k/yr
**Experience:** 8+ years
**Skills:** Technical Program Management, Infrastructure, SRE, AWS, GCP, Azure, ml pipelines, llm infrastructure, Distributed Systems, Observability, Automation, Capacity Planning
**Posted:** 2026-07-22

> Senior Technical Program Manager leading large-scale infrastructure programs at Glean to improve scalability, reliability, cost efficiency, and AI/ML platform capabilities. Requires 8+ years in TPM, infrastructure or SRE with strong cloud and cross-functional leadership experience.

## Job Description

## Role Responsibilities
- Drive the company’s Infrastructure roadmap across Setup & Deployment, Runtime, Storage, and AI Infra.
- Lead cross-functional programs that improve scalability, reliability, cost efficiency, and developer velocity.
- Define and orchestrate how Glean instances are deployed, upgraded, and monitored at scale.
- Partner with AI and Data teams to evolve our ML pipelines, model training infrastructure, and LLM serving stack.
- Lead initiatives to improve observability, configuration management, and resource utilization.
- Coordinate capacity planning, infrastructure migrations, and performance optimization programs.
- Build clear visibility into infra cost drivers and partner with finance and engineering leaders on optimization initiatives.
- Lead end-to-end infra programs spanning compute, networking, storage, orchestration, and AI workloads.
- Partner with Engineering to define standards for environment provisioning, deployment automation, and configuration governance.
- Develop and operationalize frameworks for runtime health, scaling, and disaster recovery.
- Drive consistency and automation across deployment orchestration systems.
- Establish clear metrics for reliability, performance, and cost efficiency.
- Coordinate cross-team delivery of high-impact programs such as data pipeline scalability, LLM infrastructure expansion, or infra observability improvements.
- Communicate program status and technical risks effectively to leadership and stakeholders.
- Continuously identify process or system bottlenecks, and drive automation to improve speed and reliability of infra operations.

## Requirements
- BS/MS in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related technical field.
- 8-10+ years of experience in technical program management, infrastructure, or SRE, with at least 3-5 years managing infra or platform-scale programs.
- Proven success delivering cross-functional infrastructure programs in B2B or enterprise environments where scalability, uptime, and performance are critical.
- Experience working closely with Infra, SRE, and ML/AI teams on distributed systems or data infrastructure.
- Strong understanding of cloud infrastructure (AWS, GCP, or Azure) including compute, networking, storage, and orchestration systems.
- Ability to structure complex multi-quarter infrastructure programs with clear milestones and measurable impact.
- Strong written and verbal communication and ability to manage through ambiguity, anticipate scaling challenges, and align teams across priorities.
- Builder mindset with focus on automation, reliability, and efficiency.

## Nice-to-Haves
- Understanding of data pipelines, ML training workflows, and LLM runtime infrastructure.

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