Minimum qualifications:

　　Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or equivalent practical experience.

　　10 years of experience as a sales engineer in a cloud computing or business-to-business software company in a customer-facing role, professional services, and sales engineering setting.

　　Experience with database technologies, administration and management tools, performance tuning techniques, SQL, troubleshooting, and data migration strategies to cloud.

　　Experience delivering technical presentations and live demonstrations of database products.

　　Preferred qualifications:

　　Master's degree in Computer Science, or a related technical field.

　　8 years of experience in sales or professional consulting in the field of systems integration, large-scale data transfer/management, and enterprise database performance.

　　Experience optimizing database performance with respect to transactional or analytic workloads.

　　Knowledge of disaster recovery and data backup strategies.

　　Ability to learn, understand, and work quickly with new emerging technologies, methodologies, and solutions in the Cloud/IT technology space.

　　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.

　　As a Customer Engineer, you will work directly with the Cloud Sales teams as an enterprise database subject matter expert to differentiate and portray the goal of Google Cloud to our customers. You will help prospective customers and partners understand Google Cloud, explain technical features, help customers design architectures, engage in proof- of-concepts, and troubleshoot potential roadblocks related to database migration and data back-ends for new app development.

　　Google Cloud accelerates organizations’ ability to digitally transform their business with the best infrastructure, platform, industry solutions and expertise. We deliver enterprise-grade solutions that leverage Google’s cutting-edge technology – all on the cleanest cloud in the industry. 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.

　　Work with the team to identify and qualify business opportunities, understand key customer business and technical issues, and develop the strategy and solution.

　　Inspire customers and peers to solve difficult problems with ambitious and novel solutions.

　　Manage the technical relationship with Google’s customers, including managing product and solution briefings, proof-of-concept work, and the coordination of additional technical resources.

　　Work with customers to demonstrate and prototype Google Cloud product integrations in customer/partner environments. Travel to customer sites, conferences and other related events as needed.

　　Recommend integration strategies, enterprise architectures, platforms, and application infrastructure required to complete solution using best practices on Google Cloud.

　　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 https://careers.google.com/eeo/ and https://careers.google.com/jobs/dist/legal/OFCCPEEOPost.pdf If you have a need that requires accommodation, please let us know by completing our Accommodations for Applicants form: https://goo.gl/forms/aBt6Pu71i1kzpLHe2.