Principal Technical Program Manager

About the Opportunity:How success will be delivered: An exceptional Principal Technical Program Manager (TPM) is sought to join the Engineering Leadership team and be responsible for execution of developer experience, site reliability (SRE), product security, and cross-organizational programs. This role will drive strategic technical initiatives that enhance developer productivity, system reliability, security posture, and engineering capabilities across the entire organization.The Principal TPM will serve as a technical leader and strategic partner to engineering leadership, developer experience teams, SRE teams, security teams, and cross-functional stakeholders to define, prioritize, and execute programs that are foundational to engineering excellence and operational resilience. Additionally, while not managing Program Managers directly, this role will lead the creation of organizational standards, templates, and best practices for program management, while mentoring program and technical program managers across the organization. The successful candidate will be responsible for programs that span multiple engineering teams, enhance technical infrastructure, and directly impact the ability to scale efficiently, reliably, and securely.Responsibilities:Developer Experience & ProductivityDrive initiatives that improve developer workflows, productivity, and satisfaction.Lead optimization of CI/CD pipelines, development environments, and tooling.Standardize onboarding processes, code review practices, and development workflows.Implement feedback systems (e.g., DORA metrics, surveys) to continuously improve developer experience.Site Reliability Engineering (SRE)Partner with SRE teams to strengthen service reliability, scalability, and operational excellence.Lead efforts in capacity planning, disaster recovery, and performance optimization.Implement automation for infrastructure, monitoring, and incident response.Reduce MTTR through improved observability, alerting, and on-call practices.Product SecurityCoordinate security program rollouts across engineering teams to ensure SLA adherence.Promote secure development practices and integrate security-by-design into engineering processes.Drive adoption of security automation, tooling, and vulnerability management.Facilitate collaboration between Security Engineering and Product teams to align requirements and execution.Cross-Organizational LeadershipExecute complex programs spanning multiple teams, business units, and geographies.Lead platform migrations, large-scale technology upgrades, and infrastructure modernization.Establish collaboration frameworks that align Engineering, Product, SRE, and Security teams.Break down silos and ensure unified execution of technical initiatives.Strategic Program ManagementTranslate organizational objectives into clear technical programs with success metrics.Define governance frameworks, risk management processes, and reporting structures.Facilitate architectural decision-making and drive cross-team technical alignment.Provide visibility to stakeholders through program tracking and communication systems.Program Management Standards & ExcellenceDefine and implement best practices, templates, and playbooks for technical program management.Scale program management frameworks across the organization for consistency and efficiency.Establish KPIs to measure program delivery effectiveness and drive continuous improvement.Mentorship & Organizational DevelopmentMentor and coach Program Managers and Technical Program Managers.Support hiring, onboarding, and career development of program management talent.Lead communities of practice, knowledge-sharing forums, and skill development initiatives.Requirements:10+ years of experience on software teams as Software Engineer, Engineering Manager or TPM6+ years in TPM roleB.S. in Software Engineering, Computer Science, or Technical DisciplineExperience defining, influencing and running end-to-end complex technical programsStrategic thinking and ability to understand complex technical concepts and communicate them to executive business stakeholdersAbility to drive change through building systems, frameworks and/or platformsUnderstanding of capacity, systems efficiency and mapping return on investment to engineering systemsExcellent writing skills to distill contextualized metrics, facts, and raise clear risks with paths to green, to business and engineering stakeholdersFacilitate and make complex decisions to keep programs moving and on timeAbility to thrive in fast-paced, collaborative and ambiguous start-up like environments where thoughtfulness, an entrepreneurial mindset, persistent execution and relationships drive successExperience in driving change across large greater than 120 engineering organizationsTPMs are not expected to write or read code, but are expected to understand system flows, system architectures, and APIsPreferred Qualifications:Experience in high-scale technology companies with complex engineering organizationsPrevious experience in program management leadership roles with responsibility for establishing standards and mentoring other PgMsTrack record of building program management capabilities in growing organizations or during organizational scalingHands-on experience with specific tools in key focus areas:Developer Experience: GitHub Actions, Docker, internal platform tools, developer portals, build systems, testing frameworksSRE: Prometheus/Grafana, NewRelic / Datadog, Kubernetes, Terraform, incident management platforms, observability toolsProduct Security: SIEM platforms, vulnerability scanners, security automation tools, static analysis tools, threat modeling platformsCross-Organizational Programs: Program management tools, migration frameworks, incident response platformsExperience with agile/lean methodologies and modern program management tools (Jira, Asana, etc.)Background in DevOps, Platform Engineering, or Infrastructure Engineering rolesExperience managing technical programs in regulated industries or with strict compliance requirementsExperience mentoring PgMs and creating best practicesExperience with organizational change management and large-scale engineering transformation initiativesDisclaimer RemoteHunter isn’t the EOR (Employer of Record) for this position. 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