Cloud Customer Engineer — UK/IE Startups & Scaleups

Google Inc.; City of Westminster; On-site; GBP 120,000 - 180,000; Full time

Job summary

Google is seeking a Share Customer Engineer for UK/IE Startups & Scaleups Growth. You will lead high-impact technical engagements with rapidly scaling startups, helping founders and CTOs accelerate product delivery on Google Cloud.

You will advise on architecture, real-time data, AI workloads, and scalable cloud strategies while representing Google’s enterprise capabilities to a dynamic startup ecosystem.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, a related technical field, or equivalent practical experience.
• 10 years of experience in a customer-facing technical role (e.g., Customer Engineer, Solutions Architect, or Developer Advocate) within the cloud computing industry.
• Experience designing, architecting, and deploying cloud-native applications, containerized environments (Kubernetes/GKE), and modern data pipelines.

Responsibilities

• Deliver compelling presentations, product demonstrations, and technical workshops at Google events, accelerator programs, and industry conferences.
• Build and nurture strong, trusted-advisor relationships with startup CTOs, founders, lead architects, and engineering teams.
• Help customers design and scale modern data platforms using BigQuery, real-time streaming, and vector databases as the core foundation for their application logic and AI capabilities.
• Guide startups on implementing advanced AI workloads, including Generative AI, LLMs, RAG systems, and agentic workflows, utilizing both first-party and partner model ecosystems.
• Partner with the Sales team to qualify opportunities, address technical objections, and design secure, scalable cloud architectures.

Skills

Ownership of outcomes

Decision making

Ambiguity tolerance

Stakeholder influence

Domain expertise

Education

Bachelor's degree or equivalent

Tools

Kubernetes

GKE

BigQuery

Spark

Kafka

Vertex AI Vector Search

LangChain

LlamaIndex

Job description

Google is seeking a Share Customer Engineer for UK/IE Startups & Scaleups Growth. You will lead high-impact technical engagements with rapidly scaling startups, helping founders and CTOs accelerate product delivery on Google Cloud.

You will advise on architecture, real-time data, AI workloads, and scalable cloud strategies while representing Google’s enterprise capabilities to a dynamic startup ecosystem.