Database Sales Engineer, Google Cloud

Job description

When leading companies choose Google Cloud, it's a huge win for spreading the power of cloud computing globally. Once educational institutions, government agencies, and other businesses sign on to use Google Cloud products, you come in to facilitate making their work more productive, mobile, and collaborative. You listen and deliver what is most helpful for the customer. You assist fellow sales Googlers by problem-solving key technical issues for our customers. You liaise with the product marketing management and engineering teams to stay on top of industry trends and devise enhancements to Google Cloud products.

As a Cloud Native Database Customer Engineer for Google Cloud Platform (GCP), you will help our customers to adopt Google Cloud managed database offering. You will work in close partnership within the sales teams by problem-solving key technical issues for our customers. Additionally, you'll liaise with the Product and Engineering teams to stay on top of industry trends and devise enhancements to Google Cloud products.

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.

Responsibilities

• Build partner specific, go-to-market solutions to reduce business cycles and drive partner business as measured through pipeline and business growth.
  
• Work with the team to identify and qualify business opportunities for databases, understand key customer business and technical issues, and develop the strategy and solution to support their stakes.
• Inspire customers and peers to solve difficult problems with ambitious and novel solutions. This includes product and solution briefings, proof-of-concept work, and coordinating technical resources.
• Design the architecture and the migration strategy minimising the migration effort, risk and downtime. 
  
• Recommend integration strategies, enterprise architectures, platforms, and application infrastructure required to deliver solutions using best practices on Google Cloud.
  

Minimum qualifications:

• Bachelor's degree or equivalent practical experience.
• 6 years of experience with cloud native databases.
• Experience engaging with, and presenting to, technical stakeholders and executive leaders.
  
• Ability to communicate in Polish fluently as this is a client facing role.

Preferred qualifications:

• Master's degree in Computer Science or a related technical field.
• Experience optimising database performance with respect to transactional or analytic workloads, and knowledge of disaster recovery and data backup strategies.
  
• Experience with technical sales or professional consulting in the fields of systems integration, large-scale data transfer/management, and enterprise database performance.
• Knowledge of DevOps principles and database automation tools.
  
• Understanding of cloud-based database architectures and deployments (e.g., GCP), including knowledge of distributed or big data technologies.