Technical Program Manager III, Site Reliability Engineering, Google Cloud

Google•Sunnyvale, CA

2d•$163,000 - $236,000

About The Position

The Technical Program Manager III will lead complex, multi-disciplinary technical programs for Google Workspace SRE. The role focuses on reliability, infrastructure convergence, capacity optimization, and disaster recovery, coordinating work across product lines, engineering teams, and company-wide partners. The program manager will work with stakeholders to plan requirements, identify risks, manage schedules, track deliverables and program health, and communicate recommendations and technical tradeoffs to executives and engineers. Workspace SRE supports data integrity, performance, availability, architectural consistency, dependency analysis, and end-to-end product ownership. The position also advocates efficient engineering processes and uses genAI tooling to develop technical and program-management skills. Individual pay depends on job-related skills, experience, and relevant education or training. The listed US compensation is $163,000–$236,000, plus a 15% bonus target, equity, and benefits.

Requirements

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

Nice To Haves

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

Responsibilities

Lead planning, execution, and delivery of multi-quarter, highly cross-functional technical programs focused on reliability, infrastructure convergence, capacity optimization, and disaster recovery across Google Workspace.
Partner with Dev Team Leads, SRE leadership, and core infrastructure teams to align roadmaps, define milestones, track deliverables, and manage expectations across Director and VP levels.
Define, track, and report key program health metrics, SLO compliance, and OKRs using executive dashboards such as SRE Map, QSR, and Automon.
Advocate lightweight, high-leverage engineering processes that eliminate toil, streamline incident follow-ups, and accelerate production onboarding.
Leverage genAI tooling to develop technical skills in addition to program-management skills and work on improving products used by billions of people.