Note: The job is a remote job and is open to candidates in USA. Route36 is seeking a Senior Technical Program Manager to support Meta's BBE organization across network infrastructure, New Product Introduction, lab operations, and cross-functional infrastructure initiatives. The role provides technical program and people leadership, manages engineering resources, coordinates execution, and ensures accurate planning, risk identification, staffing, and delivery of complex engineering programs.
Responsibilities
- Own the end-to-end intake process for new engineering initiatives, ensuring projects are properly scoped, documented, prioritized, staffed, and tracked in GSD
- Partner with engineering leadership to translate technical requirements into executable project plans, milestones, dependencies, staffing needs, and delivery schedules
- Provide people management for assigned engineering resources, including hiring, onboarding, coaching, career growth and development, and performance management
- Own resource planning and staffing assignments across projects based on priorities, capacity, and required technical skill sets
- Maintain visibility into team capacity and workload and proactively identify staffing needs, skill gaps, or resource constraints
- Participate in technical planning sessions, architecture reviews, and NPI readiness meetings to understand technical dependencies and ensure plans accurately reflect engineering complexity
- Collaborate with engineering leads to evaluate technical estimates, challenge assumptions, identify delivery risks, and ensure schedules are realistic
- Build and maintain program plans, dashboards, and reporting covering project health, NPI progress, lab readiness, engineering capacity, risks, and dependencies
- Coordinate cross-functional efforts across network engineering, lab operations, product, supply chain, and infrastructure teams
- Identify technical risks, hardware readiness concerns, lab constraints, and cross-team dependencies before they impact delivery
- Translate complex technical work into concise leadership updates while maintaining sufficient technical depth for engineering stakeholders
- Continuously improve engineering intake, planning, reporting, resource management, and operational processes
Skills
- 7+ years of Technical Program Management, engineering leadership, or related experience supporting complex infrastructure organizations
- Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, a relevant technical field, or equivalent practical experience
- Experience managing technical resources, including hiring, development, performance management, capacity planning, and project assignments
- Experience developing software on operating systems such as Linux
- Experience developing automation and tooling for network provisioning, deployment, and operations
- Experience developing and understanding network device configurations for at least one major network vendor such as Arista, Juniper, Cisco, Brocade, Ciena, Infinera, or Nokia
- Proficiency in at least one programming language such as Python, Go, C++, or Java, including hands-on experience adopting AI-assisted coding tools and the ability to rapidly learn new development languages
- Demonstrated knowledge of TCP, IPv4/6, routing protocols such as BGP, MPLS, or ISIS, and related network services including DHCP and DNS
- Ability to understand engineering designs, technical dependencies, implementation plans, estimates, and delivery risks
- Strong written and verbal communication skills with the ability to work effectively with both engineers and senior leadership
- Experience supporting NPI programs, network labs, or hardware qualification
- Experience developing network operations automation within a DevOps environment, including provisioning/ZTP, deployment, monitoring, remediation, and software push systems
- Experience working within a hyperscale network or data center environment
- Experience building engineering dashboards and executive reporting
- Previous experience as a Network Engineer, Systems Engineer, Software Engineer, or similar technical IC before moving into program or people leadership
Benefits
- Hiring, onboarding, coaching, career growth and development, and performance management for assigned engineering resources
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