Senior Technical Program Manager, Infrastructure
TLDR
Lead large-scale infrastructure programs to optimize Glean's platform performance, scalability, and cost efficiency, impacting AI capabilities across diverse enterprise environments.
Glean is seeking a Senior Infrastructure Technical Program Manager (TPM) to lead large-scale, cross-functional initiatives that define, scale, and optimize our infrastructure platform.
- Driving the company’s Infrastructure roadmap across Setup & Deployment, Runtime, Storage, and AI Infra.
- Leading cross-functional programs that improve scalability, reliability, cost efficiency, and developer velocity.
- Defining and orchestrating how Glean instances are deployed, upgraded, and monitored at scale.
- Partnering with AI and Data teams to evolve our ML pipelines, model training infrastructure, and LLM serving stack.
- Leading initiatives to improve observability, configuration management, and resource utilization.
- Coordinating capacity planning, infrastructure migrations, and performance optimization programs.
- Building clear visibility into infra cost drivers and partnering 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.
- 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.
- Understanding of data pipelines, ML training workflows, and LLM runtime infrastructure is a plus.
- 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.
- This role is hybrid (4 days a week in one of our SF Bay Area offices)
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AI-First Mindset at Glean:
At Glean, AI fluency is core to how we work and we're committed to ensuring every new hire feels confident integrating AI into their everyday work. As part of the interview process, you'll complete a brief AI-focused exercise or discussion so we can understand how you think about, design, and use AI to drive impact in your role. Feel free to reference any tools, platforms, or workflows you use today — prior Glean experience isn't required.
Benefits
Hybrid work arrangement
This role is hybrid (4 days a week in one of our SF Bay Area offices)
Free Meals & Snacks
provide healthy lunches daily to keep you fueled and focused.
Health Insurance
Medical, Vision, and Dental coverage.
Home Office Stipend
When you join, you'll receive a home office improvement stipend.
Annual education and wellness stipends
as well as an annual education and wellness stipends to support your growth and wellbeing.
Glean is a Work AI platform designed to help organizations optimize their operations through intelligent search and AI-driven capabilities. By offering a scalable and secure infrastructure, Glean empowers businesses across various industries to harness the full potential of AI while maintaining control and customization.