Technical Program Manager Lead, Google Search Observability and Reliability

Google; Chicago (IL); On-site; USD 192,000 - 278,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Equity

Benefits

Job summary

Google LLC is seeking a Technical Program Manager to lead complex, multi-disciplinary engineering projects across large-scale infrastructure. You will plan requirements with internal customers and shepherd projects through the full lifecycle, communicating risks clearly to stakeholders and executives.

You will manage engineering-specific programs and cross-functional teams, defining multi-quarter roadmaps and resolving distributed system dependencies.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in a technical field or equivalent practical experience (minimum).
• 8 years of experience in program management.
• 5 years of experience in leadership role with direct reports.

Responsibilities

• Lead, mentor, and allocate a team of Technical Program Managers supporting vital Search reliability, testing architectures, and observability initiatives.
• Partner directly with Engineering Directors across an organization to drive strategic portfolio roadmaps and resolve complex architectural dependencies.
• Drive business-critical reliability programs, including next-generation AI serving infrastructure, automated error detection, and continuous safe release mechanisms.
• Manage external dependencies, cross-functional alignment, and executive reviews across Engineering, Product, and partner teams to achieve platform and capacity milestones.
• Establish scalable program governance, review cadences, and automated data-driven tooling to accelerate delivery and optimize resource stewardship.

Skills

Program management

Leadership

Education

Bachelor's degree in a technical field

Tools

Automation tools for program management

Cross-stack systems experience

Job description

Note: By applying to this position you will have an opportunity to share your preferred working location from the following: Mountain View, CA, USA; Chicago, IL, USA.

Minimum qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in a technical field, or equivalent practical experience.
• 8 years of experience in program management.
• 5 years of experience in leadership role with direct reports.

Preferred qualifications

• 8 years of experience managing cross-functional/team projects.
• Experience with cross-stack systems, servers, and managing the resulting complexities and dependencies.
• Experience with complex systems infrastructure and building or using automation tools for program management.
• Experience managing multiple, time-sensitive projects simultaneously in environments with ambiguity and moving variables.

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 various Engineering-specific programs and teams.

As a Technical Program Management (TPM) Lead for Google Search Observability and Reliability, you will lead a team of TPMs managing strategic programs across large-scale, mission-critical infrastructure. Google Search manages billions of queries daily; our team ensures Search infrastructure remains exceptionally reliable, highly observable, and fast during rapid AI transitions.

In this role, you will partner with Engineering Directors across an organization of engineers to define multi-quarter roadmaps and resolve complex distributed systems dependencies. You will drive core reliability programs, including next-generation AI serving architectures, automated error detection, telemetry frameworks, and continuous safe release pipelines.

Additionally, you will mentor and grow a team of TPMs, align cross-functional engineering and product stakeholders, and leverage data-driven automation to scale operations.

In Google Search, we're reimagining what it means to search for information - any way and anywhere. To do that, we need to solve complex engineering challenges and expand our infrastructure, while maintaining a universally accessible and useful experience that people around the world rely on. In joining the Search team, you'll have an opportunity to make an impact on billions of people globally.

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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• Lead, mentor, and allocate a team of Technical Program Managers supporting vital Search reliability, testing architectures, and observability initiatives.
• Partner directly with Engineering Directors across an organization to drive strategic portfolio roadmaps and resolve complex architectural dependencies.
• Drive business-critical reliability programs, including next-generation AI serving infrastructure, automated error detection, and continuous safe release mechanisms.
• Manage external dependencies, cross-functional alignment, and executive reviews across Engineering, Product, and partner teams to achieve platform and capacity milestones.
• Establish scalable program governance, review cadences, and automated data-driven tooling to accelerate delivery and optimize resource stewardship.

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 .