Technical Program Manager, Release Engineering

Job Description

Back to all jobs Facebook's mission is to give people the power to build community and bring the world closer together. Through our family of apps and services, we're building a different kind of company that connects billions of people around the world, gives them ways to share what matters most to them, and helps bring people closer together. Whether we're creating new products or helping a small business expand its reach, people at Facebook are builders at heart. Our global teams are constantly iterating, solving problems, and working together to empower people around the world to build community and connect in meaningful ways. Together, we can help people build stronger communities — we're just getting started. Release Engineering plays an integral role in implementing and executing product release processes as well as building internal tools for effective and effortless release management. In this role, you will establish and lead large scale release infrastructure programs end-to-end. We are looking for a person with a strong project management background, a passion for making tools that scale, and someone that is scrappy and gets the job done on-time. The Release Engineering team ensures that new software is released in a streamlined manner from development to production. The team establishes procedures and develops tools that are used by the Engineering, Product Management, and Operations teams. As a TPM, you'll use your strong technical ability and program management skills to drive product releases across many different platforms and teams. You'll work hard to ensure that Facebook's products are delivered on time, with repeatable and scalable process and tools. This is a full-time position based in our New York City office. RESPONSIBILITIES

• Establish and own large scale, complex release engineering programs end-to-end.
• Coordinate with key stakeholders to manage and improve our release infrastructure.
• Develop and manage end-to-end project plans and ensure on-time delivery.
• Perform risk management and change management on projects.
• Provide day-to-day coordination and communication for projects and tasks.
• Empower engineers to move faster by removing roadblocks.
• Deliver goals by ruthlessly prioritizing and focusing on impact.
• Communicate project status to stakeholders and various key teams around the organization.
• Drive internal process improvements across multiple teams and functions.
• Interface with multiple Engineering, Product and/or Infrastructure teams.
• Help drive tooling decisions to align with higher company initiatives.

MINIMUM QUALIFICATIONS

• Bachelor in Computer Science.
• 7 or more years of experience with software engineering.
• Experience delivering tech programs or products from inception to delivery.
• Knowledge of user needs, gathering requirements, and defining scope.
• Experience operating autonomously across multiple teams, demonstrated critical thinking, and thought leadership.
• Experience working with technical management teams to develop systems, solutions, and products.
• Organizational, coordination and multi-tasking experience.
• Analytical and problem-solving experience with large-scale systems.
• Experience establishing work relationships across multi-disciplinary teams and multiple partners in different time zones.

PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS

• 10+ years of software engineering, systems engineering or similar experience, in addition to project/program management experience.
• Web or Internet start-up environment and technical infrastructure management experience where you had to wear multiple hats.
• Communication skills and experience working with technical management teams.
• Product sense including meeting the demands of the target market, ranking feature importance, managing complexity and measuring product success.
• Experience managing complex software engineering projects.
• Familiarity with metrics collection, applied data science, and presentation via dashboards.
• Ability to motivate and focus a large collaboration to reach challenging goals.
• Interpersonal skills, including relationship building and collaboration within a diverse, cross-functional team.
• Technical experience in release automation engineering, CI/CD or related roles.
• Experience automating release and build processes.

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