Technical Program Manager III, Site Reliability Engineering, Google Cloud

Google; Sunnyvale (CA); On-site; USD 170,000 - 230,000; Full time

Job summary

Google LLC in Sunnyvale, CA is seeking a Technical Program Manager III for Site Reliability Engineering in Google Cloud. You’ll lead complex, multi-disciplinary programs across SRE, software, and operations to deliver reliable infrastructure and services.

You will partner with product, engineering, and site teams to plan requirements, identify risks, manage schedules, and communicate progress clearly to executives and cross-functional partners.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in a technical field or equivalent practical experience.
• At least 5 years of experience in program management.
• Experience as an engineer (SRE/Software/Systems) and experience working with engineers.

Responsibilities

• Plan requirements, identify risks, manage project schedules, and communicate with cross-functional partners.
• Explain analyses and recommendations to executives and engineers; discuss technical tradeoffs.
• Lead complex, multi-disciplinary projects for Google Workspace SRE initiatives and related Google Cloud efforts.

Skills

Cross-functional collaboration

Communication skills

Influence without authority

Education

Bachelor's degree in a technical field

Job description

Technical Program Manager III, Site Reliability Engineering, Google Cloud

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• Bachelor's degree in a technical field, or equivalent practical experience.
  
• 5 years of experience in program management.
  
• Experience as an engineer (e.g., Site Reliability Engineer, Software Engineer, Systems Engineer etc.).
• Experience working with engineers.

Preferred qualifications:

• 5 years of experience managing cross-functional or cross-team projects.
• Experience working directly with Site Reliability Engineering (SRE), production operations, distributed storage/compute systems (e.g., Spanner, Kubernetes, Cloud infrastructure), or disaster recovery.
• Demonstrated understanding of core SRE principles: Service Level Objectives (SLOs), error budgets, incident management, capacity planning, and resiliency testing (DiRT).
• Proven track record of managing complex engineering migrations, architectural convergence, compliance/data residency programs (e.g., multi-region or country-level data isolation), or cloud efficiency initiatives.
• Exceptional investigative, problem-solving, and communication skills, with proven ability to influence without authority across engineering leads, managers, and cross-functional teams.

About the job

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. You're equally comfortable explaining your team's analyses and recommendations to executives as you are discussing the technical tradeoffs in product development with engineers.

Billions across the globe use and love Google Workspace products like Gmail, Drive, Meet, Calendar, Docs, Editors, and Chat. In order to scale and ensure Workspace users continue to enjoy using our products, Workspace SRE is driving several complex, high impact projects that require rigorous program management for their successful delivery.

Workspace SRE is at the center of changes happening in the Workspace product area. The amount of scope per capita in Workspace SRE is enormous. We are involved with data integrity, performance