Technical Program Manager, CoreOS

Minimum qualifications:

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, IT, or related fields.
• 8 years of experience in program management, identifying process improvements, and orienting teams to agile methodologies.
• 8 years of experience in leading projects through the full software development lifecycle.

Preferred qualifications:

• 10 years of experience in program management roles focused on Operating System (OS), software development and delivery.
• Experience in Linux Kernel development.
• Experience with information security incidents and threat assessments (e.g., incident response, penetration testing, vulnerability assessments).
• Experience in security assessments, vulnerability management and security research.
• Knowledge of encrypt/decrypt algorithms or security software stack design.
• Understanding of operating systems internals, including kernel security and memory protection mechanisms.

About the job

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 extensive technical and leadership expertise, you manage projects of various size and scope, identifying future opportunities, improving processes and driving the technical directions of your programs.

In this role, you will focus on partnering with Platforms Infrastructure Engineering CoreOS engineering organization, which is responsible for the kernel and operating system that runs on all of Google's production machines. As part of the team, you will be driving Software programs and operational processes that improve the performance, scale, and security of our kernel and OS.

The Core team builds the technical foundation behind Google’s flagship products. We are owners and advocates for the underlying design elements, developer platforms, product components, and infrastructure at Google. These are the essential building blocks for excellent, safe, and coherent experiences for our users and drive the pace of innovation for every developer. We look across Google’s products to build central solutions, break down technical barriers and strengthen existing systems. As the Core team, we have a mandate and a unique opportunity to impact important technical decisions across the company.

Responsibilities

• Partner with engineering leads and product management in CoreOS area, contribute the development of strategic roadmaps and execution plans for NodeOS and Kernel security areas.
• Lead cross functional program teams to scope, plan and execute software programs in NodeOS and Kernel Security space, to deliver improvements in Kernel and OS scalability/security.
• Drive operational processes, provide program management leadership to monitor, prioritize and resolve production issues, including kernel security vulnerabilities.
• Track progress of execution plans, ensure all leadership/stakeholders are aware of progress/blockers on a continuous basis, drive strategic and tactical decisions throughout all organizations and levels.
• Represent programs and engineering teams in execution/program review forums.