Customer Engineer, Platform, Startups, Google Cloud
Google· Customer Engineering / Google Cloud
Hybrid (Boulder, CO, USA; Seattle, WA, USA)$127k - $184kFull-timePosted 4w ago
About the role
Platform-focused Customer Engineer role partnering with sales to differentiate Google Cloud for startups, owning technical account plans, delivering cross-pillar solutions, and driving technical wins across infrastructure modernization, data analytics, and more.
Responsibilities
- Develop and own the technical account plan and strategy, participating in planning and supporting targeted sales motions.
- Combine sales, programming, and solutions architecture expertise to show the value of Google Cloud Platform across the portfolio through complex demos, pilots and in-depth workshops.
- Architect cross-pillar solutions, drive technical wins, and define initial delivery plans for customers; continue to lead the technical engagement in the solution phase.
- Facilitate the post-sales transition by supporting pricing activities and transitioning the final delivery plan to implementation teams.
- Maintain awareness of progress against the delivery plan, providing support to cross-functional teams during ramp, delivery, migration or implementation phases.
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, on-premise engineering, virtualization, or containerization platforms.
- Experience engaging with, or presenting to, technical stakeholders or executive leaders.
- Experience in programming languages, debugging, systems design, prototyping, demos, or customer workshops.
- Ability to travel up to 20% of the time.
Skills
Required:Technical account planningSolutions architectureCross-pillar solution design
Benefits
- Health, dental, vision, life, disability insurance
- Retirement Benefits: 401(k) with company match
- Paid Time Off: 20 days of vacation per year
- Sick Time: 40 hours/year (increased to 69 hours/year for Seattle) including 5 discretionary sick days per instance
- Maternity Leave (Short-Term Disability + Baby Bonding): 28-30 weeks
- Baby Bonding Leave: 18 weeks
- Holidays: 13 paid days per year
Last updated Oct 23, 2026. Interested? Apply on the company site.
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