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Technical Program Manager, Site Reliability Engineering

Location: Seattle/Kirkland

Team: Program Management

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This position is based in Seattle, WA or Kirkland, WA.

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, Site Reliability Engineering

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 technical and leadership expertise, you run Engineering-focused projects that are well-defined under supervision.

Responsibilities:

  • Interact with diverse technical and non-technical groups, spanning all organizational levels.
  • Lead cross-functional teams and manage multiple simultaneous projects with competing priorities simultaneously.
  • Handle data collection and automation challenges.
  • Perform operational forecasting, and capacity planning.
  • Identify metrics and drive initiatives to improve the quality of Google Services.

Minimum qualifications:

  • BS in Engineering or IT-related field (In lieu of degree, 4 years relevant work experience).
  • 2 years relevant work experience, including 1 year industry experience or equivalent.

Preferred qualifications:

  • 4 years software development, datacenter, operations, or computing infrastructure-related experience, including experience in multi-tiered distributed application environments.
  • Excellent project management, interpersonal and communication skills.
  • Strong analytical, problem-solving, negotiation and organizational skills.
  • Focused and agile under pressure.
  • Strong customer service focus, with the ability to communicate with highly technical management teams.
  • Demonstrated strong performance in prior roles, with increasing levels of responsibility and independence.

The Big Picture

Seattle/Kirkland

Home to our gaggle of geeks in the Pacific Northwest, Google Seattle/Kirkland offers opportunities to tackle some of the world’s most interesting coding projects.

Location: Seattle/Kirkland

Program Management

Lead complex, multi-disciplinary projects and usher them through the entire lifecycle.

Team: Program Management

Technical Program Manager, Site Reliability Engineering

Location: Seattle/Kirkland

Team: Program Management

Apply now

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