Database Customer Engineer, Google Cloud (Mandarin, English)
Confirmed on the employer's own hiring board on Oct 28, 2026. First seen by Alion on Oct 27, 2026. Google scores B on the Alion truth index.
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 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.
In this role, you will be a subject matter expert on the Google database portfolio and help develop new solution initiatives and materials to support a cross-functional group of internal stakeholders and partners. You will also engage with customers to articulate the Google databases portfolio and help to design and optimize the customers data management environment using Google Cloud databases. You will help to ensure technical and commercial readiness of these solutions, including assets to enable go-to-market teams, and provide field feedback to the Product and Engineering teams to build product direction.
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
- Identify and qualify business opportunities, identify customer technical objections, and develop a strategy to resolve technical blockers.
- Lead discovery workshops for customers to assess existing application environments to identify workloads and goals for moving to Google Cloud Platform (GCP) databases.
- Support the technical relationship with Google’s customers including product and solution briefings, proof-of-concept work, and the coordination and prioritization of solutions impacting customer adoption of Google Cloud.
- Share best practices on promoting databases among accounts/account teams.
Qualifications
Minimum qualifications:
- Bachelor's degree or equivalent practical experience.
- 10 years of experience in the enterprise software or cloud space.
- Experience with one or more database technologies such as MySQL, Redis, MongoDB, PostgreSQL, Oracle, SQL Server, and graph databases.
- Experience with relational and NoSQL database technologies, including positioning databases for a customer’s application use case.
- Experience writing, reading, and debugging code in Java, Javascript, Python, or Go.
- Ability to communicate in Mandarin and English fluently to support client relationship management in this region.
Preferred qualifications:
- Experience in customer-facing pre-business or professional consulting in data and information lifecycle management field with translating customer business needs into cloud-centric solutions.
- Experience with data management architectures including storage subsystems, high availability, backup/recovery, disaster recovery, performance, scalability, security, monitoring and database management.
- Experience in helping customers design and build applications using open source or cloud-native databases.
- Experience with data migration strategies and moving production systems in on-premise or data center environments or migration to cloud scenarios.