Summary
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A technology organization is hiring a cloud database reliability engineer to operate, optimize, and automate large-scale database platforms using modern cloud services.
Highlights
Manage critical cloud database systems with a focus on reliability, scalability, automation, and performance optimization.
Description
GCP Database Site Reliability/Support Engineer (SCE)
Start Date: ASAP
Time Zone: East preferred, but Central is fine
Skill set Requirement: Strong Spanner skills
Location requirements: US only
Role Overview:
We're looking for a GCP 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.
Key Responsibilities:
• Design, deploy, and manage GCP 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 GCP IAM, networking, and monitoring (Cloud Monitoring/Logging)
• Familiarity with incident management and on-call rotations
Good to Have:
• GCP Professional Cloud Database Engineer certification
• Experience with Cloud SQL, BigQuery, or AlloyDB
• Terraform/Infrastructure-as-Code experience
