Technical Program Manager, SDLC

The Role

Hadrian's engineering organization is scaling fast, and how we plan, build, ship, and respond to incidents needs to scale with it. Right now, that's an open problem. The SDLC processes that will define our engineering culture over the next decade are being built from scratch, and this role owns that work.

This is a high-visibility role with direct access to engineering leadership and meaningful influence over how Hadrian builds software. If you want to design the system, not just work within it, this is the role.

What You'll Do

• Define and implement SDLC processes across engineering teams, building consistency and scalability where little currently exists
• Own change management and release processes end to end
• Drive the incident management lifecycle: response, postmortems, and continuous improvement
• Establish program tracking, reporting, and execution cadence across engineering
• Partner with engineering and product to align roadmap execution and surface delivery risks early
• Identify bottlenecks in development workflows and implement lasting solutions to improve velocity
• Implement and track SLAs/SLOs for delivery and reliability
• Lead cross-functional program execution for critical initiatives
• Drive continuous improvement across tooling, workflows, and engineering operations

What We're Looking For

• 5-8 years in Technical Program Management, Engineering Program Management, or closely related roles supporting software development teams
• Deep understanding of the software development lifecycle and the ability to design and implement scalable processes around it
• Experience driving cross-functional alignment across engineering, product, and operations stakeholders
• Hands-on experience running or improving incident response systems, including postmortem processes
• Strong program tracking and execution discipline: you know how to keep complex initiatives moving without being the bottleneck
• Clear communicator who can operate credibly with both senior leadership and individual contributors
• Comfort with tooling like Jira, GitHub, CI/CD systems, incident tools (PagerDuty, Opsgenie), and Confluence
• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related technical field, or equivalent experience