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Practice Customer Engineer, Application Modernization, Google Cloud

Google · San Francisco, CA, USA

When leading companies choose Google Cloud, it's a huge win for spreading the power of cloud computing globally. Once educational institutions, government agencies, and other businesses sign on to use Google Cloud products, you come in to facilitate making their work more productive, mobile, and collaborative. You listen and deliver what is most helpful for the customer. You assist fellow sales Googlers by problem-solving key technical issues for our customers. You liaise with the product marketing management and engineering teams to stay on top of industry trends and devise enhancements to Google Cloud products.

As a Practice Customer Engineer (CE) with a specialty in Application Modernization, you will partner with technical Sales teams to differentiate Google Cloud to our customers. You will serve as a technical expert responsible for accelerating technical wins and adoption of complex, specialized workloads. You will leverage your deep expertise in our most strategic product areas, in partnership with Platform CEs, to be a writing code to develop prototypes, proofs-of-concept, and demos to sell new, highly specialized solutions to customers. You will solve application-centered customer challenges and provide a critical feedback loop to influence customers and product development.

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.

Individual pay is determined by factors including job-related skills, experience, and relevant education or training.

US: $123000 - $177000 (USD) + 15% bonus target + equity + benefits

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Minimum qualifications:

  • Bachelor's degree or equivalent practical experience.
  • 4 years of experience with cloud native architecture in a customer-facing or support role.
  • Experience with architectural design patterns, platform engineering (e.g. Infrastructure-as-Code, automation, devops, artifact management or code repositories), virtualization deployments, container runtimes, or networking.
  • Experience with end-to-end SDLC including application security, performance or monitoring/telemetry.
  • Experience working with demos, prototypes, or workshops with customers.
  • Experience engaging with, and presenting to, technical stakeholders and executive leaders.

Preferred qualifications:

  • Experience with agentic architectures, AI-assisted software delivery and developer tooling.
  • Experience with observability and SRE principles.
  • Experience with developing scalable architectures using API management, microservice frameworks, and PaaS.

Software pay context

Based on 7,637 disclosed Software salaries on RoleSuite, the role pays a median of $158K/year, with most offers between $123K and $200K (10th–90th percentile: $101K–$236K).

This posting lists $123K–$177K, in line with the $158K market median.

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