Technical Program Manager, Google Infrastructure

This position is based in Mountain View, CA.

The area: Technical Infrastructure

Behind everything our users see online is the architecture built by the Technical Infrastructure team to keep it running. From developing and maintaining our data centers to building the next generation of Google platforms, we make Google's product portfolio possible. We're proud to be our engineers' engineers and love voiding warranties by taking things apart so we can rebuild them. We're always on call to keep our networks up and running, ensuring our users have the best and fastest experience possible.

The role: Technical Program Manager, Google Infrastructure

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.

As a technical program manager for Technical Infrastructure Engineering at Google (including networking, storage, and cluster), you will be central to the operations of the cross-functional team. On a daily basis you will be responsible for working with a wide variety of software engineering teams, internal customers, Google’s cloud platform, product managers, finance, and operations teams to orchestrate and lead the team through many production and software release cycles. Beyond solid program delivery and technical skills, you should be able to manage and deliver multiple storage-based projects. Responsibilities include coordinating cross-team designs and road maps, internal and external team development schedules and deployment to customers. Depending on the person's background, they would also be a core participate in the design of various systems and outreach to customers internal to google. You should be a professional with proven experience in problem solving, software product development, and delivery of complex large-scale hardware/software projects. You are a top performer with a rare and specific skill set who will thrive in a very fast-paced and demanding environment. Your ability to think critically, lead through intellect, deliver quickly, and to partner across a wide variety of functions at Google to drive change in a complex setting will be essential to the Payments Program. You will have strong internal drive, a tenacious spirit, a collaborative method of working and deep experience in delivering complex systems on time. You will need excellent communication skills to be the center of the universe for all questions about schedules, quality and progress updates.