Cloud Technical Solutions Developer, AI/ML – Waterloo or Kitchener Full-time

Minimum qualifications:

• Bachelor’s degree in Science, Technology, Engineering, Mathematics, or equivalent practical experience.
• 6 years of experience reading code in a general purpose coding language (e.g., Java, C, C , Python, Shell, Go or JavaScript, etc.) or in system design
• 6 years of experience with 2 or more of the following: Web Tech, Data/Big Data, Systems Admin, Machine Learning, Networking, Kubernetes, Oracle, SAP.
• 6 years of experience troubleshooting and advocating for customers’ needs, and triaging technical issues.
• Ability to communicate in English and Mandarin fluently for this customer-facing role that requires interactions with local stakeholders.

Preferred qualifications:

• Experience working with any public cloud (GCP) services and infrastructure.
• Experience in kernel debugging, performance analysis of containerized systems, and debugging complex workload issues across, multi-node environments.
• Understanding of basic web technologies (e.g., HTTP, HTML, DNS, TCP, etc.).

About the job

The Google Cloud Platform team helps customers transform and build what’s next for their business – all with technology built in the cloud. Our products are developed for security, reliability and scalability, running the full stack from infrastructure to applications to devices and hardware. Our teams are dedicated to helping our customers – developers, small and large businesses, educational institutions and government agencies – see the benefits of our technology come to life. As part of an entrepreneurial team in this rapidly growing business, you will play a key role in understanding the needs of our customers and help shape the future of businesses of all sizes use technology to connect with customers, employees and partners.

In this role, you will troubleshoot technical problems for customers with a mix of debugging, networking, system administration, updating documentation, and when needed, coding/scripting. Our Technical Solutions team is focused on customer needs and you will help drive the success of Google Cloud by understanding and advocating for our customers’ issues. You will be required to work in a Shift Pattern or non-standard work hours as required. This may include weekend work.

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.

Responsibilities

• Work with customers on their production deployments to resolve issues and achieve product readiness, availability, and scale.
• Develop an understanding of Google Cloud’s product technology and underlying architectures by troubleshooting, reproducing, and determining the root cause for customer-reported issues, building tools, and diagnosis.
• Act as consultant and subject matter expert for internal stakeholders in developing, business and customer organizations to resolve technical deployment obstacles and improve Google Cloud.
• Work as part of a team of consultants that globally ensure 24-hour customer support. This will include a need to sometimes work non-standard work hours/shifts, and may include weekend work.
• Understand customer issues, advocate for their needs with internal teams, including product and developing teams, to find ways to improve the product, and drive production.