Solutions Engineer, Mission Critical Services, Compute, Google Cloud

This role requires you to work in a shift pattern or non-standard work hours as required. This may include weekend work.For Australia applicants:At Google, we have a vision of empowerment and equitable opportunity for all Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples and commit to building reconciliation through Google’s technology, platforms and people and we welcome Indigenous applicants. Please see our Reconciliation Action Plan for more information.For Japan applicants:Google welcomes people with disabilities.Note: By applying to this position you will have an opportunity to share your preferred working location from the following: Tokyo, Japan; Sydney NSW, Australia.Minimum qualifications:Bachelor's degree in Science, Technology, Engineering or equivalent practical experience.6 years of experience with troubleshooting for customers needs, triaging technical issues, or software development.Experience in creating content for technical audiences (e.g., developer documentation, industry white papers, Computer Science course material, or IT administration playbooks).Experience with debugging and coding in Java, C, C++, Python, Go, or JavaScript.Experience in working with distributed systems, with common solutions or design patterns.Experience with web technologies (e.g., Hypertext Transfer Protocol (HTTP), HTML, Domain Name System (DNS), Transmission Control Protocol (TCP), etc).Preferred qualifications:Experience with crisis response or escalation management across multiple teams, with the ability to collaborate in incident response for customer issues.Experience in working with any public cloud (e.g., Google Cloud Platform) services and infrastructure.Experience in developing developer tools (e.g., automation, testing, debugging).Experience with system virtualization, on-premise or hybrid cloud computing.Experience as a system/network administrator working with Linux/Unix or other operating systems, from Kernel to Shell, file systems, and client-server protocols.Experience with cloud computing and debugging workload issues across multi-node environments.About the jobThe Google Cloud team helps companies, schools, and government seamlessly make the switch to Google products and supports them along the way. You listen to the customer and swiftly problem-solve technical issues to show how our products can make businesses more productive, collaborative, and innovative. You work closely with a cross-functional team of web developers and systems administrators, not to mention a variety of both regional and international customers. Your relationships with customers are crucial in helping Google grow its Cloud business and helping companies around the world innovate.The Mission Critical Services team focuses on rapid incident response, solutions, and customer-centric supportability to helps avoid issues, and improve the resiliency of customer mission-critical environments deployed on Google Cloud Platform (GCP).In this role, you will be a part of a global team that provides support to customer workloads deployed on Google Cloud. You will provide rapid-response support to customers owning end-to-end incident management to mitigate or resolve their issues, and drive improvements to improve workload reliability for the customers. You will troubleshoot and mitigate technical problems for customers with debugging, networking, system administration, updating documentation, and coding/scripting.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.ResponsibilitiesResolve customer production deployment issues, ensuring product readiness and availability. Triage and manage technical escalations including platform outages and executive concerns.Develop expertise in Google Cloud architecture by troubleshooting, reproducing, and determining the root cause for customer-reported issues, and by building diagnostic tools.Act as a subject matter expert for internal stakeholders (e.g., Engineering, Business, Product) to resolve technical deployment obstacles and advocate for customer needs to drive product improvement.Work as a part of a global team of developers/consultants providing customer support. Work on non-standard shifts and occasional weekend work.Understand customer issues, advocate for their needs with internal teams including Product and Engineering teams to find ways to improve the product, and drive production.Google is proud to be an equal opportunity workplace and is an affirmative action employer. We are committed to equal employment opportunity regardless of race, color, ancestry, religion, sex, national origin, sexual orientation, age, citizenship, marital status, disability, gender identity or Veteran status. We also consider qualified applicants regardless of criminal histories, consistent with legal requirements. See also Google's EEO Policy and EEO is the Law. If you have a disability or special need that requires accommodation, please let us know by completing our Accommodations for Applicants form .