Principal Cloud Database Engineer

🕒 July 15

🚗 Michigan – Remote

🚗 Michigan – Remote

💵 $115k - $192.9k / year

⏰ Full Time

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Ford Motor Company

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10,000+ employees

Founded 1903

📦 Logistics

💼 Consulting

📣 Marketing

💰 Post-IPO Debt on 2023-08

Logistics • Consulting • Marketing

Ford Motor Company is a globally renowned automotive company based in the United States, established by Henry Ford. The company is committed to building a better world where every individual has the freedom to move and follow their dreams. Ford is dedicated to innovation, with a focus on services, experiences, and software alongside its traditional vehicle manufacturing. The company is actively involved in sustainability initiatives and aims to meet ambitious environmental targets. Ford values service, community impact, and strives to combine business success with social and environmental responsibility. With a rich history of over 121 years, Ford continues to adapt and lead in the evolving automotive landscape.

📋 Description

• Lead architecture design and engineering for GCP relational database platforms (Cloud SQL for PostgreSQL, Cloud SQL for SQL Server, AlloyDB, Spanner). • Define and implement enterprise database standards aligned with security, scalability, and performance best practices. • Drive modernization initiatives including database migrations to GCP using tools such as DMS, Striim and migration frameworks. • Design highly available, resilient, and cost-optimized database solutions on GCP. • Implement infrastructure-as-code (IaC) using tools such as Terraform. • Enable secure connectivity patterns (IAM, VPC, Private Service Access, Private Service Connect, serverless integrations). • Lead Cloud Databases financial accounting, performance tuning, capacity planning, and database reliability engineering. • Integrate AI/ML capabilities into database platforms (e.g., MCP, data agents, context engineering, anomaly detection, query optimization). • Consult with application teams to enable data pipelines for AI/ML workloads. • Evaluate and adopt AI-assisted database operations and automation solutions. • Drive initiatives on AI-enabled observability and self-healing systems. • Establish best practices for backup, recovery, disaster recovery, and compliance. • Define monitoring, logging, and alerting strategies for database services. • Lead database governance and continuous cost optimization initiatives.

🎯 Requirements

• Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Computer Science, Data Engineering, or related field. • 10+ years of experience in relational database engineering (PostgreSQL, SQL Server, MySQL, AlloyDB or Spanner). • 5+ years of hands-on experience with GCP, especially: • Cloud SQL for PostgreSQL and/or Cloud SQL for SQL Server • AlloyDB • Cloud Spanner • Strong expertise in: • Database platform automation, design, indexing, and performance tuning • Backup/recovery and high availability architectures • Migration strategies and tools (e.g., DMS, Striim, replication tools) • Experience with DevOps practices, CI/CD pipelines, and IaC. • Programming experience (Terraform, Python, Java, or Go).

🏖️ Benefits

• Immediate medical, dental, and prescription drug coverage • Flexible family care, parental leave, new parent ramp-up programs, subsidized back-up child care and more • Vehicle discount program for employees and family members, and management leases • Tuition assistance • Established and active employee resource groups • Paid time off for individual and team community service • A generous schedule of paid holidays, including the week between Christmas and New Year’s Day • Paid time off and the option to purchase additional vacation time.