Google Cloud Platform Database Site Reliability/Support Engineer (SCE)

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Position: Google Cloud Platform Database Site Reliability/Support Engineer (SCE)

Location: REMOTE

CONTRACT

Job Description:

NOTE: We're looking for a Google Cloud Platform Database Support/Site Reliability Engineer to manage, optimize, and troubleshoot cloud-native database systems, with hands-on expertise in Cloud Spanner as a mandatory requirement.

Job Summary:

Key Responsibilities:

• Design, deploy, and manage Google Cloud Platform database services (Cloud Spanner, Cloud SQL, BigQuery, Firestore).
• Monitor performance, availability, and reliability of production database systems.
• Troubleshoot and resolve database incidents, ensuring SLA/SLO compliance.
• Optimize Cloud Spanner schemas, queries, and instance configurations for scale and cost.
• Implement backup, replication, and disaster recovery strategies.
• Collaborate with engineering teams on database architecture and migrations.
• Automate operational tasks using Terraform/scripting (Python/Bash).

Mandatory Requirements:

• Hands-on production experience with Google Cloud Spanner (schema design, performance tuning, monitoring).
• Strong SQL and distributed database concepts (consistency, sharding, replication).
• Experience with Google Cloud Platform IAM, networking, and monitoring (Cloud Monitoring/Logging).
• Familiarity with incident management and on-call rotations.

Good to Have:

• Google Cloud Platform Professional Cloud Database Engineer certification.
• Experience with Cloud SQL, BigQuery, or AlloyDB.
• Terraform/Infrastructure-as-Code experience.