Technical Program Manager III, Infrastructure, Core Systems

About the role

A problem isn’t truly solved until it’s solved for all. That’s why Googlers build products that help create opportunities for everyone, whether down the street or across the globe. As a Technical Program Manager at Google, you’ll use your technical expertise to lead complex, multi-disciplinary projects from start to finish. You’ll work with stakeholders to plan requirements, identify risks, manage project schedules, and communicate clearly with cross-functional partners across the company.

Responsibilities

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• Scope, plan, and deliver critical workstreams within the PSS reliability program, translating ambiguous program goals into structured, executable project plans.
• Partner with and influence executive SWE/SRE Pillar Stewards and cross-product area cross-functional teams (Core Risk, SRE, PARM) to drive accountability and prioritize critical risk remediations.
• Author and deliver persuasive progress reports and risk burn-down metrics for PSS Senior Leadership Team (SLT) and Core executive reviews.
• Assess developer burden and determine if existing infrastructure/technologies can be leveraged for implementation.
• Advocate for the technical/operational importance of reliability by articulating the impact of potential outages.
• Establish and own the tracking and governance framework to monitor risk remediation progress, manage complex dependencies, and negotiate conflicting priorities.

Requirements

• Bachelor's degree in a technical field, or equivalent practical experience.
• 5 years of experience in program management.
• Experience building, automating, and developing distributed systems from the ground up.
• Experience working in infrastructure, systems engineering, SRE, production operations, or cloud environment.

Preferred qualifications

• 5 years of experience managing cross-functional or cross-team projects.
• Prior experience working within Privacy, Safety, or Security (PSS) domains.
• Experience managing complex, cross-functional technical programs in infrastructure, systems engineering, SRE, or production operations.
• Solid understanding of reliability principles (e.g., SLOs, post-mortems, risk assessments).
• Familiarity with machine resource planning, capacity optimization (CPU/GCU, RAM, Disk), or TPU/GPU accelerator management in a cloud or large-scale production environment.
• Ability to build consensus and influence senior engineering leads and cross-functional partners without direct authority.

Skills

• Technical expertise in program management and project execution.
• Strong communication and stakeholder management skills.
• Experience with reliability principles and operational excellence.
• Ability to navigate ambiguity and advocate for system reliability.

Benefits

US: $163000 - $237000 (USD) + 15% bonus target + equity + benefits