Senior Technical Program Manager - Public Cloud
Company websitelambda.ai (Lambda, opens in new tab)
Base salary $278K to $370K
Employer-published annual base salary, USD. Advertised base range in San Jose, CA +1 more
This opportunity has 2 location variants. Pay shown applies only to the location named; other locations may differ.
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- LocationSan Jose, CA +1 more
- WorkplaceHybrid
- Status at last checkSource accepting applications when checked
- Last checked (3 h ago) · observed since
All 4 locations
- San Jose Office (Zanker)
- San Jose Office (First St)
- San Francisco Office (Fremont St)
- Bellevue Office
About this job
Lambda, The Superintelligence Cloud, is a leader in AI cloud infrastructure serving tens of thousands of customers. Our customers range from AI researchers to enterprises and hyperscalers. Lambda's mission is to make compute as ubiquitous as electricity and give everyone the power of superintelligence. One person, one GPU.
If you'd like to build the world's best AI cloud, join us.
*Note: This position requires presence in our San Jose, San Francisco, or Bellevue office location 4 days per week; Lambda’s designated work from home day is currently Tuesday.
What You’ll Do
Own complex programs from planning through rollout, delivering Lambda Public Cloud roadmap commitments with clear accountability for schedule and quality.
Turn product priorities and engineering strategy into execution plans with defined outcomes, milestones, owners, and decision points.
Partner with engineers on architecture, implementation estimates, and sequencing; make dependencies, risks, and delivery tradeoffs visible early.
Coordinate launches across compute, networking, storage, and the cloud control plane, aligning Engineering, Product, Infrastructure, SRE, Security, and Support on readiness and customer impact.
Build a practical delivery cadence that connects roadmap planning, capacity availability, testing, release gates, rollout plans, and operational handoffs.
Give teams and leadership a shared view of progress, decisions, and blockers. Drive timely escalation, resolve cross-team dependencies, and follow through on commitments.
Define launch success measures for service availability, provisioning, performance, and customer experience; use post-launch reviews to improve future delivery.
You
Bring at least 8 years in technical program leadership or engineering management, with a record of shipping complex cloud services.
Understand software delivery, infrastructure architecture, and distributed systems well enough to assess implementation choices and challenge assumptions with engineers.
Have worked with GPU infrastructure, machine learning platforms, or orchestration systems such as Kubernetes.
Can independently lead several teams through ambiguous requirements, competing priorities, and delivery risks, influencing decisions without direct authority.
Communicate technical issues and business consequences clearly, adapting the detail for engineering teams and senior stakeholders.
Use delivery methods and planning tools effectively, choosing processes that 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 helping a growing organization establish repeatable planning and delivery practices.
Salary Range Information
The annual salary range for this position has been set based on market data and other factors. However, a salary higher or lower than this range may be appropriate for a candidate whose qualifications differ meaningfully from those listed in the job description.
About Lambda
Founded in 2012, with 500+ employees, and growing fast
Our investors notably include TWG Global, US Innovative Technology Fund (USIT), Andra Capital, SGW, Andrej Karpathy, ARK Invest, Fincadia Advisors, G Squared, In-Q-Tel (IQT), KHK & Partners, NVIDIA, Pegatron, Supermicro, Wistron, Wiwynn, Gradient Ventures, Mercato Partners, SVB, 1517, and Crescent Cove
We have research papers accepted at top machine learning and graphics conferences, including NeurIPS, ICCV, SIGGRAPH, and TOG
Our values are publicly available: https://lambda.ai/careers
We offer generous cash & equity compensation
Health, dental, and vision coverage for you and your dependents
Wellness and commuter stipends for select roles
401k Plan with 2% company match (USA employees)
Flexible paid time off plan that we all actually use
Equal Opportunity Employer
Lambda is an Equal Opportunity employer. Applicants are considered without regard to race, color, religion, creed, national origin, age, sex, gender, marital status, sexual orientation and identity, genetic information, veteran status, citizenship, or any other factors prohibited by local, state, or federal law.
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Pay in context
This role's base floor ($278,000) is above 96% of the 750 Program & Project Management roles in California listed on this site. Their median floor is $150,000; the middle half runs from $125,100 to $176,300.
Only jobs on this site count, and each one publishes a base salary of $100,000 or more, so this compares six-figure jobs with each other, not with the whole market. Computed Nov 6, 2026.
This listingSenior Technical Program Manager - Public Cloud$278K to $370K
Senior Network Engineer$278K to $370K
Senior Software Development Engineer$284K to $378K
Senior Site Reliability Engineer - SDN$267K to $312K
Senior HPC Engineer - Fleet Engineering$267K to $356K
Senior Site Reliability Engineer - Storage$267K to $356K
Staff Product Manager - Storage & Networking$291K to $387K
Chart as a table
| Role | Published base |
|---|---|
| Senior Technical Program Manager - Public Cloud (this listing) | $278K - $370K |
| Senior Network Engineer | $278K - $370K |
| Senior Software Development Engineer | $284K - $378K |
| Senior Site Reliability Engineer - SDN | $267K - $312K |
| Senior HPC Engineer - Fleet Engineering | $267K - $356K |
| Senior Site Reliability Engineer - Storage | $267K - $356K |
| Staff Product Manager - Storage & Networking | $291K - $387K |
Observed changes
- Began meeting the published-salary criteria
- First observed on the employer's board
- Began meeting the published-salary criteria
- Observed since
- Employer-stated posting date
- 2026-11-04
Where this pay comes from
$278K - $370K in San Jose, CA +1 more
Location as the employer wrote it: San Jose / San Francisco
USD 278,000 – 370,000 · 1 YEAR · Salary · San Jose / San Francisco
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- Rule set
- us-base-v2
The employer's job board publishes this pay as a dedicated data field. We read the field directly; no interpretation was needed.
$226K - $302K in United States
Location as the employer wrote it: Bellevue
USD 226,000 – 302,000 · 1 YEAR · Salary · Bellevue
- Method
- Structured pay field published by the employer
- Checked
- Rule set
- us-base-v2
The employer's job board publishes this pay as a dedicated data field. We read the field directly; no interpretation was needed.
What we verified
- The pay figures come from the employer's own listing, quoted exactly above.
- The pay is an annual base salary in US dollars with a minimum of at least $100,000.
- The role was publicly listed on the employer's job board when last checked.
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