Cloud Data Engineer, Professional Services, Public Sector

Minimum qualifications:

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or equivalent practical experience.
• 3 years of experience with relational database technologies (e.g., PostgreSQL, MySQL, SQL Server) and writing SQL queries.
• Experience in object-oriented programming using Python or Java, and data structures and algorithms.
• Ability to travel up to 30% of the time as needed.
• Active, or the ability to obtain, a TS/SCI security clearance.

Preferred qualifications:

• Experience building and optimizing distributed data systems and machine learning operation pipelines.
• Experience with database management tools for backups, recovery, snapshot management, sharding, partitioning and database performance tuning.
• Experience in database administration techniques including storage, clustering, availability, disaster recovery, security, logging, performance tuning, monitoring and auditing.
• Experience working with business stakeholders to understand requirements, provide technical leadership, and educate teams on Google Cloud Platform (GCP) best practices.
• Familiarity with cloud-native data warehousing solutions like BigQuery, including AI-assisted SQL and Python features.
• Ability to troubleshoot and resolve issues in large-scale data lakes containing structured, semi-structured, and unstructured data.

About the job

As a Cloud Data Engineer, you will guide Public Sector customers to develop, configure and deploy their data and AI solutions. Together with the team, you will support customer implementations of Google Cloud products through architecture guidance, best practices, data migration, capacity planning, implementation, troubleshooting, monitoring, and more. You will consult with customers on how to best design their data and AI solutions including development and deployment of ML models, and integrations with leading Google technologies. You will travel to customer sites to deploy solutions and deliver workshops to educate and empower customers.

Additionally, you will work closely with Product Management and Product Engineering to drive excellence in Google Cloud products and features. Google Public Sector brings the magic of Google to the mission of government and education with solutions purpose-built for enterprises. We focus on helping United States public sector institutions accelerate their digital transformations, and we continue to make significant investments and grow our team to meet the complex needs of local, state and federal government and educational institutions.
The US base salary range for this full-time position is $127,000-$183,000 + bonus + equity + benefits. Our salary ranges are determined by role, level, and location. Within the range, individual pay is determined by work location and additional factors, including job-related skills, experience, and relevant education or training. Your recruiter can share more about the specific salary range for your preferred location during the hiring process.
Please note that the compensation details listed in US role postings reflect the base salary only, and do not include bonus, equity, or benefits. Learn more about benefits at Google.Additionally, you will work closely with Product Management and Product Engineering to drive excellence in Google Cloud products and features.
The US base salary range for this full-time position is $127,000-$183,000 + bonus + equity + benefits. Our salary ranges are determined by role, level, and location. Within the range, individual pay is determined by work location and additional factors, including job-related skills, experience, and relevant education or training. Your recruiter can share more about the specific salary range for your preferred location during the hiring process.
Please note that the compensation details listed in US role postings reflect the base salary only, and do not include bonus, equity, or benefits. Learn more about benefits at Google.

Responsibilities

• Develop and maintain robust, scalable data pipelines using Python, Java and SQL, ensuring high performance and data integrity across multi-cloud environments.
• Apply object-oriented design principles to create modular, self-sustaining code for automated data processing and system enhancements.
• Work closely with cross-functional teams to translate business requirements into conceptual and logical data models.
• Analyze on-premise and cloud database environments, consulting on the optimal design for performance and deployment on Google Cloud Platform.