Practice Customer Engineer, Data Management, Google Cloud
About the job
The Google Cloud Platform team helps customers transform and build what's next for their business — all with technology built in the cloud. Our products are engineered for security, reliability and scalability, running the full stack from infrastructure to applications to devices and hardware. Our teams are dedicated to helping our customers — developers, small and large businesses, educational institutions and government agencies — see the benefits of our technology come to life. As part of an entrepreneurial team in this rapidly growing business, you will play a key role in understanding the needs of our customers and help shape the future of businesses of all sizes use technology to connect with customers, employees and partners. Google Cloud accelerates every organization’s ability to digitally transform its business and industry. We deliver enterprise-grade solutions that leverage Google’s cutting-edge technology, and tools that help developers build more sustainably. Customers in more than 200 countries and territories turn to Google Cloud as their trusted partner to enable growth and solve their most critical business problems.
Note: By applying to this position you will have an opportunity to share your preferred working location from the following: San Francisco, CA, USA; Atlanta, GA, USA; Austin, TX, USA; Cambridge, MA, USA; Kirkland, WA, USA; New York, NY, USA; Reston, VA, USA; Sunnyvale, CA, USA.
Responsibilities
- Partner with technical sales teams as a data management subject matter expert to differentiate Google Cloud to our customers.
- Help prospective and existing customers and partners understand the power of Google Cloud, develop creative cloud solutions and architectures to solve their business challenges.
- Engage in proofs of concepts, and troubleshoot any technical questions and roadblocks related to database and application migrations and data back ends for new application development.
- Engage with customers to understand their business and technical requirements, and persuasively present practical and useful solutions on Google Cloud.
Minimum qualifications
- Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or equivalent practical experience.
- 10 years of experience in cloud computing environment, or in a customer-facing role.
- Experience in database technologies, administration and management tools, performance tuning techniques, SQL, troubleshooting, and data migration strategies to Google Cloud.
- Experience delivering technical presentations and live demonstrations of database products.
Preferred qualifications
- Master's degree in Computer Science or a related technical field.
- Experience in disaster recovery and data backup strategies.
- Experience with optimizing database performance with respect to transactional or analytic workloads.
- Experience with data migration strategies and moving large-scale production systems either in on-premise/data center environments or migration to cloud scenarios, and SQL skills with deep query troubleshooting knowledge.
- Understanding of complex customer’s existing software workloads and ability to define a technical migration roadmap to the Cloud reflecting specific customer needs.
- Excellent skills in SQL, NoSQL, and Performance tuning.
Benefits
- Health, dental, vision, life, disability insurance
- Retirement Benefits: 401(k) with company match
- Paid Time Off: 20 days of vacation per year, accruing at a rate of 6.15 hours per pay period for the first five years of employment
- Sick Time: 40 hours/year (increased to 69 hours/year for Seattle) including 5 discretionary sick days per instance
- Maternity Leave (Short-Term Disability + Baby Bonding): 28-30 weeks
- Baby Bonding Leave: 18 weeks
- Holidays: 13 paid days per year
Pay
US: $152000 - $221000 (USD) + 42.86% bonus target + equity + benefits