Sr. Technical Program Manager, Core Infrastructure

Sr. Staff Technical Program Manager, Core Infrastructure

• Full-time
• Workplace Type:
  Hybrid

Linked In is the world’s largest professional network, built to create economic opportunity for every member of the global workforce. Our products help people make powerful connections, discover exciting opportunities, build necessary skills, and gain valuable insights every day. We’re also committed to providing transformational opportunities for our own employees by investing in their growth. We aspire to create a culture that’s built on trust, care, inclusion, and fun – where everyone can succeed.

Join us to transform the way the world works.

At Linked In, our approach to flexible work is centered on trust and optimized for culture, connection, clarity, and the evolving needs of our business. The work location of this role is hybrid, meaning it will be performed both from home and from a Linked In office on select days, as determined by the business needs of the team.

The Linked In Infrastructure Engineering Technical Program Management Group is looking for a Senior Staff Technical Program Manager (TPM) to join our team which is part of Linked In’s Infrastructure engineering organization. Infrastructure engineering consists of over 2,000 engineers who are responsible for infrastructure that runs  The org builds and operates massive-scale systems: physical data centers, networking, storage, compute, observability, and Data and AI/ML platforms.

Engineering Team this TPM will support:

Core Infrastructure refers to the foundational layer of Linked In's infrastructure. It encompasses the essential systems and services that support the company's large-scale engineering operations and technology platforms. The Core Infrastructure team is responsible for building, maintaining, and modernizing these systems to ensure reliability, scalability, and efficiency across Linked In's services.

The Senior Staff TPM will drive cutting-edge improvements to our advanced Compute, CI/CD platform. You will own and drive these key areas of Linked In’s Core Infra infrastructure and platforms that power all of the majorapplications across Linked In’s products serving hundreds of millions of users. Collaborate with Product and Infrastructure Engineering teams across Linked In to deliver high-impact, cutting-edge solutions.

Initiate, plan and execute large scale, cross-functional and company-wide programs.

• Define and drive strategy for large scale cross function, complex and high impact Compute platform, control plane and CI/CD platforms at Linkedin.
• Partner closely with cross functional Infra engineering and product teams to define scope, milestones, dependencies, and success metrics.
• Drive alignment across multiple organizations on technical architecture decisions, trade-offs, and delivery plans.
• Own program planning and execution artifacts, including roadmaps, dependency maps, risk registers, and status reporting.
• Identify, manage, and mitigate technical, operational, and delivery risks, escalating proactively when needed.
• Lead high-risk launches, migrations, and cross-region deployments, ensuring availability, durability, and performance SLAs are met.
• Establish and drive operational excellence, including incident response coordination, postmortems, and reliability improvements.
• Track and report on program health using data and metrics, enabling informed decision-making at senior leadership levels.
• Influence without authority to resolve conflicts, unblock teams, and maintain delivery momentum in ambiguous environments.
• Communicate clearly and concisely with executive and senior technical stakeholders, translating complex technical details into actionable insights.

• 8+ years of technical program management experience.
• 4+ years of technical program management experience in large distributed systems.
• B.S./B.A. in a technical field, or equivalent practical experience.

• Demonstrated experience leading teams and technical programs to deliver successful outcomes at the intersection of areas such as Storage/streaming platforms, Infrastructure, and Hardware.
• Experience working in cloud or…