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Practice Customer Engineer, Database Specialist (English, Japanese)

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TokyoFull-timePosted 1mo ago

About the role

Customer-facing engineering role focused on Google Cloud databases, combining technical expertise with pre-sales/consulting to help customers design, migrate, and optimize database solutions.

Responsibilities

  • Be a subject matter expert for one or more of the Google Cloud Platform (GCP) database portfolio like Cloud SQL, AlloyDB, and cloud-native databases like Cloud Spanner and Cloud Bigtable.
  • Identify and qualify business opportunities, identify key 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 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.
  • Curate and spread best practices on selling databases among accounts/account teams and elevate strategic mindshare with those accounts.

Qualifications

  • Bachelor's degree or equivalent practical experience.
  • 6 years of experience in the enterprise software or cloud space.
  • Experience with one or more database technologies such as Oracle, SQL Server, PostgreSQL, MySQL, Redis, MongoDB, Elasticsearch and graph databases.
  • Experience with relational and NoSQL database technologies, including positioning databases for a customer’s application use case.
  • Ability to communicate in Japanese and English fluently to interact with internal and external stakeholders.

Skills

Required:Database technology proficiency (Oracle, SQL Server, PostgreSQL, MySQL, Redis, MongoDB, Elasticsearch, graph databases)Communication in Japanese and English
Nice to have:Cloud database architecture and migration
Last updated Oct 23, 2026. Interested? Apply on the company site.

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