Technical Program Manager, Cloud Databases

Google; Sunnyvale (CA); On-site; USD 192,000 - 278,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health insurance

Dental insurance

Vision insurance

Life insurance

Disability insurance

401(k) with company match

Paid time off 20 days/year

Sick time 40 hours/year

Maternity leave 28-30 weeks

Baby bonding leave 18 weeks

Holidays 13 days/year

Job summary

Google is seeking a Technical Program Manager (TPgM) to lead complex, cross-functional database projects. You will coordinate with Engineering, Product, and TPM leadership to define scope, milestones, and execution frameworks, ensuring delivery excellence across distributed teams.

You will engage with executives, shape roadmaps, and communicate trade-offs clearly while driving improvements in launch readiness, metrics, and governance.

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

• Define program scope with leadership to drive on-time, scalable delivery of large-scale database systems.
• Architect and scale execution frameworks, metrics, and governance to improve velocity and accuracy.
• Manage cross-functional dependencies, trade-offs, and risks across distributed database teams.
• Drive alignment among exec stakeholders, product managers, and engineering leads with data-driven updates.
• Identify gaps and drive improvements in product lifecycles and multi-team integrations.

Skills

Leading large programs

Executive communication

Distributed systems

Stakeholder management

Education

Bachelors in CS or related field

Tools

Spanner

AlloyDB

Cloud SQL

Bigtable

Job description

In accordance with Washington state law, we are highlighting our comprehensive benefits package, which is available to all eligible US based employees. Benefits for this role include:

• Health, dental, vision, life, disability insurance
• Retirement Benefits: 401(k) with company match
• Paid Time Off: 20 days of vacation per year, accruing at a rate of 6.15 hours per pay period for the first five years of employment
• Sick Time: 40 hours/year (increased to 69 hours/year for Seattle) including 5 discretionary sick days per instance
• Maternity Leave (Short-Term Disability + Baby Bonding): 28-30 weeks
• Baby Bonding Leave: 18 weeks
• Holidays: 13 paid days per year

Note: By applying to this position you will have an opportunity to share your preferred working location from the following:

Sunnyvale, CA, USA; Kirkland, WA, USA.

Minimum 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.

Preferred qualifications

• Experience running large programs and managing teams.
• Technical judgement and understanding of distributed systems.
• Domain expertise in database engines/data platforms (e.g., relational databases, NoSQL, distributed storage, query engines, or managed cloud services like Spanner, AlloyDB, Cloud SQL, Bigtable).
• Track record of operating within a Leadership Triad to influence product roadmaps, drive strategic alignment, and manage complex multi-team dependencies.
• Strong analytical and systems-thinking mindset, with experience designing program metrics, tracking launch readiness, and driving engineering operational excellence.
• Exceptional executive communication and stakeholder management skills, with ability to synthesize technical details into trade-offs, risk assessments, and executive-ready narratives.

About The Job

Google's projects, like our users, span the globe and require managers to keep the big picture in focus while being able to dive into the unique engineering challenges we face daily. As a Technical Program Manager at Google, you lead complex, multi-disciplinary engineering projects using your engineering expertise. You plan requirements with internal customers and usher projects through the entire project lifecycle. This includes managing project schedules, identifying risks and clearly communicating them to project stakeholders. You're equally at home explaining your team's analyses and recommendations to executives as you are discussing the technical trade-offs in product development with engineers.

Using your extensive technical and leadership expertise, you manage projects of various size and scope, identifying future opportunities, improving processes and driving the technical directions of your programs.

Databases TPgM Mission is to drive and amplify the predictable delivery of database products by establishing execution excellence, orchestrating cross-functional alignment across the leadership Triad, and building scalable systems that unlock organizational growth.

As a Technical Program Manager (TPgM) in Databases, you will be a strategic scale multiplier operating within the leadership Triad (Engineering, Product, TPM). You will lead complex, cross-functional programs, architect execution frameworks, and drive alignment across executive stakeholders and technical leads.

The Google Agentic Data Cloud Platform is transforming enterprise data. Our Cloud Databases, Cloud SQL, AlloyDB, Cloud Spanner, Cloud Bigtable, and Firestore, power modern enterprises globally. You will lead high-impact features that serve as key differentiators, leading teams committed to technical excellence and business growth.

Google Cloud accelerates every organization’s ability to digitally transform its business and industry. We deliver enterprise-grade solutions that leverage Google’s cutting-edge technology, and tools that help developers build more sustainably. Customers in more than 200 countries and territories turn to Google Cloud as their trusted partner to enable growth and solve their most critical business problems.

Individual pay is determined by factors including job-related skills, experience, and relevant education or training.

US: $192000 - $278000 (USD) + 20% bonus target + equity + benefits

Responsibilities

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• 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.

Google is proud to be an equal opportunity workplace and is an affirmative action employer. We are committed to equal employment opportunity regardless of race, color, ancestry, religion, sex, national origin, sexual orientation, age, citizenship, marital status, disability, gender identity or Veteran status. We also consider qualified applicants regardless of criminal histories, consistent with legal requirements. See also Google’s EEO Policy and EEO is the Law. If you have a disability or special need that requires accommodation, please let us know by completing our Accommodations for Applicants form .