Technical Solutions Engineer, Databases (English)

Minimum qualifications:

• Bachelor’s degree in Science, Technology, Engineering, Mathematics, or equivalent practical experience.
• 2 years of experience in technical support, professional services, software development, or product operations management.
• 2 years of experience in reading or debugging code (e.g., Java, C/C++, Python, JavaScript, Go) and working with SQL/NoSQL databases.
• Ability to communicate in English fluently to interact with regional customers and stakeholders.

Preferred qualifications:

• Experience in administering and querying data in distributed, columnar or analytic oriented databases or distributed data processing frameworks.
• Experience with SQL/NoSQL database administration, Google app engine, open source software communities, cloud networking solutions, or distributed computing technology.
• Experience with web or mobile app development, troubleshooting database issues, schema design, and SQL query profiling.
• Knowledge of basic web technologies (HTTP, HTML, DNS, TCP, etc.).
• Excellent attention to detail, troubleshooting, and communication skills.

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 developed 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.

As a Technical Solutions Engineer, you will own our large and important customer issues in addition to providing level two support to our other support teams.

Google Cloud accelerates every organization’s ability to digitally transform its business and industry. We deliver enterprise-grade solutions that leverage Google’s 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.

• Manage customer issues through effective diagnosis, resolution, or implementation of new investigation tools to increase productivity for customer issues on Google Cloud Platform products.
  
• Understand Google's product technology and architectures by troubleshooting, reproducing, determining the root cause for customer reported issues, and building tools for faster diagnosis.
  
• Act as a consultant and subject matter expert for internal stakeholders in engineering, sales, and customer organizations to resolve technical deployment obstacles and improve Google Cloud.
  
• Understand customer issues and advocate for their needs with cross-functional teams, including product and engineering teams to find ways to improve the product and drive quality production.
  
• Work as part of a team of engineers/consultants that globally ensure 24-hour customer support.