Minimum qualifications:

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, related field, or equivalent practical experience.
• Experience as a technical sales engineer in a cloud computing environment.
• Experience with database technologies, database management tools for backups, recovery, snapshot management, sharding, partitioning, and archiva.
• Experience with data migration strategies and moving large scale production systems.

Preferred qualifications:

• Experience with optimizing database performance with respect to transactional and/or analytic workloads.
• Experience in industry or working in a specialist area of technology.
• Experience in fields such as systems integration, large scale data transfer/management, or enterprise database performance.
• Knowledge of public cloud platforms and technical concepts such as Big Data, PaaS, SaaS, IaaS, and related industry topics.
• Ability to quickly learn, understand, and work with new emerging technologies, methodologies, and solutions.

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.

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

Google Cloud provides organizations with leading infrastructure, platform capabilities and industry solutions. We deliver enterprise-grade cloud solutions that leverage Google’s cutting-edge technology to help companies operate more efficiently and adapt to changing needs, giving customers a foundation for the future. Customers in more than 150 countries turn to Google Cloud as their trusted partner to solve their most critical business problems.

Responsibilities

• Work with teams to identify and qualify business opportunities, understand key customer technical objections, and develop strategy to resolve technical blockers.
• Challenge customers and peers to solve difficult problems with ambitious and novel solutions leveraging a sophisticated set of technical competences.
• 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 directly with customers to demonstrate and prototype Google Cloud product integrations in customer/partner environments.