Platform Customer Engineer, Google Cloud
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.
As a Platform Customer Engineer (CE), you will partner with technical Sales teams to differentiate Google Cloud to our customers. You will serve as the customer’s primary technical partner and trusted advisor, engaging in technical-led conversations to understand their business challenges. You will troubleshoot technical questions and roadblocks, engage in proofs-of-concepts and demos, and use your expertise to architect cross-pillar cloud solutions that solve these business challenges. You will drive the technical win and define the delivery and consumption plans. You will use your strategic acumen and presentation skills to engage with technical and business leaders, and persuasively present practical and useful solutions on Google Cloud. You will have excellent technical, communication and organizational skills.
Google Cloud accelerates every organization’s ability to digitally transform its business and industry. We deliver enterprise-grade solutions that leverage Google’s 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.
Minimum qualifications:
- Bachelor's degree or equivalent practical experience.
- 6 years of experience with cloud native architecture in a customer-facing or support role.
- Experience with cloud engineering and containerization platforms.
- Experience in programming languages, debugging, systems design, prototyping, demos, or customer workshops.
- Experience in architecting autonomous multi-agent systems/integrating agentic AI workflows.
- Experience engaging with, or presenting to, technical stakeholders or executive leaders.
Preferred qualifications:
- Experience selling technical solutions in one or more of the following: infrastructure modernization, application modernization, data management, data analytics, cloud AI, networking, migrations, security.
- Experience designing, building, and scaling agentic AI solutions or multi-agent workflows using orchestrator frameworks (such as LangChain, CrewAI, AutoGen, or Vertex AI agent builder).
- Experience with security concepts (e.g., encryption, identity management, access control, attack vectors, pen testing).
- Experience migrating applications and services to cloud platforms.
- Experience prospecting, and building and maintaining new customer relationships from scratch, with excitement for building out greenfield territories.
- Experience working with, and passion for the startup ecosystem.
Sales Engineering pay context
Based on 421 disclosed Sales Engineering salaries on RoleSuite, the role pays a median of $167K/year, with most offers between $133K and $200K (10th–90th percentile: $102K–$236K).
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