Cloud Databases TPM: Drive Large-Scale, Cross-Team Delivery

Google; United States; On-site; USD 192,000 - 278,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health insurance

Dental and vision insurance

Life insurance

Disability insurance

401(k) match

Paid time off

Sick time

Job summary

Google is seeking a Technical Program Manager for Cloud Databases to lead complex, cross-functional engineering programs across Sunnyvale, CA and Kirkland, WA. You will plan requirements with internal customers and guide projects through the full lifecycle, balancing technical trade-offs with delivery timelines.

The role emphasizes leadership and execution excellence, translating technical analyses into concise executive narratives while coordinating multi-team efforts and driving program

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, a related technical field, or equivalent practical experience.
• 8 years of experience in technical program management or engineering leadership, delivering distributed systems or enterprise infrastructure.

Responsibilities

• Partner across the leadership triad to define program scope, establish milestones, and drive predictable delivery of large-scale database systems.
• Architect and scale software development execution frameworks, metrics, and governance to unblock engineering velocity and operational accuracy.
• Manage complex cross-functional dependencies, technical trade-offs, and critical path risks across globally distributed database engineering teams.
• Drive alignment among executive stakeholders, product managers, and engineering leads through data-driven communication and transparent reporting.
• Identify systemic gaps, optimize product development lifecycles, and foster continuous organizational improvement. Lead technical problem-solving for architectural bottlenecks, launch readiness, and multi-team integration hurdles.

Skills

Leadership

Stakeholder management

Distributed systems

Executive communication

Education

Bachelor's degree in Computer Science

Tools

Spanner

AlloyDB

Cloud SQL

Bigtable

Job description

Google is seeking a Technical Program Manager for Cloud Databases to lead complex, cross-functional engineering programs across Sunnyvale, CA and Kirkland, WA. You will plan requirements with internal customers and guide projects through the full lifecycle, balancing technical trade-offs with delivery timelines.

The role emphasizes leadership and execution excellence, translating technical analyses into concise executive narratives while coordinating multi-team efforts and driving program