Job Description
The application window will be open until at least May 26th, 2026. This opportunity will remain online based on business needs which may be before or after the specified date.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.
Minimum qualifications:
- Bachelor's degree in a technical field, or equivalent practical experience.
- 2 years of experience in program management.
- Experience with working with optical network infrastructure, transmission systems, layer 2 and 3 routers, and data services.
- Experience in systematic troubleshooting in IP and Optical environments.
Preferred qualifications:
- 2 years of experience managing cross-functional or cross-team projects.
- Knowledge of optical communications networking.
- Experience with device repair, understanding of network topologies and global internet technologies
- Experience in a NOC/TAC environment handling large scale IP networks.
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.
As a Technical Program Manager, you will be responsible for Google's fiber optic network infrastructure.
This role is tohelp drive key outcomes inside of an operations team that supports both IP and Optical Infrastructure. As the network grows and evolves at unprecedented scale the overall alignment of projects are key. This role is a strategic part of the team partnering with managers and teams across the globe to drive process improvements and automation to ensure the team meets customer and business expectations.
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 keep our networks up and running, ensuring our users have the best and fastest experience possible.
Individual pay is determined by factors including job-related skills, experience, and relevant education or training. US: $138000 - $198000 (USD) + 15% bonus target + bonus + equity + benefitsLearn more about benefits at Google.Responsibilities
- Coordinate day to day operations for the apps engineering teams including facilitating standups and iteration planning session and coordinating activities like releases and productions bugs that span different sections of the team.
- Monitor the quality of the code base and establish policies and guidelines to improve its readability, extensibility and testability.
- Work with test engineers and QA people to improve the quality of our products to detect areas of trouble and plan for extra testing, refactorings or reimplementation.
- Recommend and help with the implementation of common good practices and methodologies that can help the apps teams become more effective.
Numbers & Facts
| Location | Thornton, CO |
| Industry | Computer Software |
| Company Size | 10,000 employees or more |
| Year Founded | 1998 |
| Website | https://goo.gle/4dbno6V |
Benefits
Paid Sick Days, Performance Bonus, Professional Development, 401K, Stock Options, Employee Events, Retirement / Pension Plans, Tuition Reimbursement, Work From Home, Life Insurance, On Site Cafeteria
About Company
Build for everyone
Since our founding in 1998, Google has grown by leaps and bounds. Starting from two computer science students in a university dorm room, we now have thousands of employees and offices around the world. These Googlers build products that help create opportunities for everyone, whether down the street or across the globe.
It starts with how we work together. We’re building a company where people of different views, backgrounds and experiences can do their best work and show up for one another. A place where every Googler feels like they belong.
So whether you develop new technology or creative campaigns, craft beautiful products or breakthrough partnerships, your work here is a chance to accomplish things that matter. Bring your insight, imagination, and healthy disregard for the impossible. Bring everything that makes you unique. Together, we can build for everyone.
Benefits
We strive to provide Googlers and their loved ones with a world-class benefits experience, focused on supporting their physical, financial, and emotional wellbeing. Our benefits are based on data, and centered around our users: Googlers and their families. They’re thoughtfully designed to enhance your health and wellbeing, and generous enough to make it easy for you to take good care of yourself (now, and in the future). So we can build for everyone, together.
Learn more about Google’s benefits on this site featuring Googlers’ experience.
How we Hire
Google’s hiring process is an important part of our culture. Googlers care deeply about their teams and the people who make them up. In order to build for everyone, we know that we need a wide range of perspectives and experiences, and a fair hiring process is the first step in getting there.
Skills
- Analysis Skillsunmatched
- Automationunmatched
- Communication Skillsunmatched
- Cross-Functionalunmatched
- Equal Employment Opportunity (EEO)unmatched
- IP (Internet Protocol)unmatched
- Identify Issuesunmatched
- Internet Technologyunmatched
- Network Administration/Managementunmatched
- Network Operations Centerunmatched
- Network Routersunmatched
- Network Topologyunmatched
- Operational Supportunmatched
- Optical Networkingunmatched
- Policy Developmentunmatched
- Process Improvementunmatched
- Product Developmentunmatched
- Product Engineeringunmatched
- Project Scheduleunmatched
- Project/Program Managementunmatched
- Quality Assuranceunmatched
- Quality Managementunmatched
- Quality Monitoringunmatched
- Risk Analysisunmatched
- Risk Managementunmatched
- Schedule Developmentunmatched
- Software Engineeringunmatched
- Technical Leadershipunmatched
- Testabilityunmatched
- Testingunmatched
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