Technical Program Manager, Google Search Platforms

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.

The Search Serving Infrastructure (SSI) team is at the heart of Google Search. Our mission is to provide a reliable, highly efficient, and performant serving framework that powers the Search ecosystem handling billions of queries a day. We address massive-scale engineering challenges, from reducing latency and CPU/TPU capacity footprints to driving large-scale architectural simplification efforts (like deprecating legacy monolithic servers in favor of modern, scalable services).

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.

Responsibilities

• Scope, shape, and lead large-scale programs spanning multiple engineering tracks. Co-develop strategies, goals, and success metrics for the broader organization.
• Perform technical assessments to evaluate engineering scope, establish milestones, define timeframes, and assess resourcing needs. Demonstrate technical judgment equivalent to a practicing Software Engineer in the infrastructure domain.
• Identify, anticipate, and manage risks, deliverables, and interdependencies across different Search Platforms and partner teams. Build mechanisms to optimize governance and information flow.
• Drive continuous optimizations in operational cadence, tooling, and communication, minimizing process friction while fostering development velocity and quality.
• Advocate alignment across disparate teams with differing objectives. Guide and influence cross-functional peers, driving consensus for technical directions and prioritizing features against constraints.

Qualifications

Minimum qualifications:

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, a related technical field, or equivalent practical experience.
• 5 years of experience leading technical program management initiatives and delivering infrastructure solutions.

Preferred qualifications:

• Master’s degree in Computer Science or a related technical discipline, or equivalent practical experience.
• 8 years of dedicated experience in a technical program manager role.
• Deep domain expertise in backend infrastructure, distributed systems, evaluation systems, or testing frameworks.
• Experience or strong interest in leveraging modern AI/ML capabilities, Large Language Models (LLMs), and agentic workflows to modernize Technical Program Manager (TPM) functions (e.g., automated dependency tracking, predictive risk modeling, and operational streamlining).
• Proven track record of driving cross-functional alignment, managing distributed teams across multiple time zones, and prioritizing complex workstreams amidst ambiguity.