Job Description

As a Subject-Matter Expert (SME) in Google Cloud Database products, you will provide Level-3 technical support for a portfolio of cloud-native and managed database services. Your focus will be on rapid, high-quality incident response, root-cause diagnosis, and resolution for complex customer cases, while maintaining SLOs, CSAT targets, and rigorous documentation standards across phone, email, and chat channels. You will act as a technical advocate for high-tier customers, collaborating closely with Google engineers and program managers to resolve critical issues and drive continuous improvement.

Key Responsibilities

• Respond, diagnose, resolve, and track customer support queries via phone, email, and chat.
• Maintain response and resolution speed as defined by SLOs.
• Achieve high customer satisfaction scores and adhere to quality standards in at least 90% of cases.
• Assist and respond to consults from other technical support representatives using existing systems and tools.
• Use troubleshooting tools and techniques to establish root cause for queries and provide customer-facing root cause assessments.
• Understand the business impact of customer issue reports, follow internal issue prioritization guidelines, and provide justification on priority for individual cases.
• Perform internal classification queries, documenting classes of problems and preventative actions for retroactive analysis.
• Reactively file issue reports to Google engineers, collaborate to diagnose customer issues, build documentation and procedures, document desired behavior and/or steps to reproduce, and suggest code-level resolutions for complex product bugs.
• Perform community management tasks as needed by the business.
• Promptly and independently resolve technical incidents and escalations, ensuring effective communication with all stakeholders so that no monitoring is needed by Google engineers.
• Take cases involving customer-specific requirements on architectural design, providing solutions limited to a particular product or subset of product features.
• Provide high-touch assistance to highest tier customers, build in-depth understanding of their most pressing issues, and act as an advocate for these issues with Google engineers and program managers.
• Chinese Language Proficiency: At least B2 level (CEFR) or equivalent, meeting or exceeding Versant benchmarks.

Product Specialization

• Cloud Native Databases: Cloud Bigtable, Cloud Datastore, Firestore, Cloud Firestore, Firebase Realtime Database, Memorystore for Memcached, Memorystore for Redis, Redis Enterprise, Cloud Spanner, Datastream.
• Managed SQL: Cloud SQL for MySQL, PostgreSQL, SQL Server, Data Migration Service, AlloyDB for PostgreSQL, AlloyDB Omni, Oracle on GCP.

Typical Case Patterns

• Database provisioning, scaling, and high-availability configuration.
• Performance tuning, query optimization, and troubleshooting latency or throughput issues.
• Data migration, backup, and restore operations across supported database engines.
• Security and compliance: IAM roles, encryption, audit logging, and access controls.
• Replication, sharding, and cross-region failover scenarios.
• Troubleshooting connectivity, authentication, and authorization issues.
• Root cause analysis for data consistency, replication lag, or failover events.
• Collaboration with Google engineering for bug diagnosis, feature requests, and product improvements.
• Documentation of best practices, runbooks, and knowledge base articles for internal and external use.

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