Staff Technical Program Manager - Foundations Engineering

Bachelor’s Degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, or a related discipline.

10+ years of recent experience as a Technical Program Manager at a technology company, ideally in an infrastructure or platform engineering organization.

Strong understanding of modern engineering practices, infrastructure systems, and developer tools. Experience with data engineering, cloud infrastructure, or developer platforms is highly desirable.

Experience working with engineering teams to implement data and infrastructure technologies and drive adoption across product and platform engineering teams.

Project planning and execution skills, including reviewing technical design documents, estimating, and scheduling.

Excellent written and verbal communication skills with the ability to communicate with confidence, clarity, and focus.

Our team is seeking a Technical Program Manager for Foundations Engineering to drive critical initiatives across Data Engineering, Data Platform, Core Infrastructure, and Developer Platform. This role will involve working with cross-functional teams to establish the vision, strategy, and technical direction for our foundational engineering efforts. Programs in this space will require a strong technical understanding, cross-organization coordination, stakeholder management, and ownership of results.

You will report into the centralized Technical Program Management team in Engineering and must be located in either the San Francisco Bay Area, Los Angeles, or Seattle.

Own Foundations Programs -

You will partner closely with Directors in Foundations Engineering, as well as key engineering and product leaders, to establish the vision, strategy, technical direction, and success metrics for foundational engineering. Focus areas for your programs will include quality, reliability, security, compliance, planning, vendor and cost management, capacity planning, adoptions, and migrations

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At DoorDash we’re building the industry’s most scalable and reliable delivery network to support our three-sided marketplace of consumers, merchants, and dashers. TPMs on our Engineering teams provide fundamental support to the underlying technology services, as well as the engineers building these services. It’s no simple task, but it wouldn’t be interesting if it was!