Senior Customer Engineer, Cloud AI & Data Platform

Google; Greater London; On-site; GBP 90,000 - 130,000; Full time

Job summary

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

You will act as a trusted advisor to optimize technical architectures, enable real-time analytics, and drive strategic business outcomes, with a focus on AI workloads and scalable cloud designs.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree or equivalent practical experience.
• 6 years of experience with cloud native architecture in a customer-facing or support role.
• Experience engaging with, or presenting to, technical stakeholders or executive leaders.
• Experience working directly within or as a technical advisor to venture-backed startups or scaleups.

Responsibilities

• Deliver presentations, product demos, and workshops at Google events, accelerator programs and industry conferences.
• Build 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 first-party and partner model ecosystems.
• Partner with the Sales team to qualify opportunities, address technical objections, and design secure, scalable, and cost-effective cloud architectures.

Skills

Cloud native architecture

Stakeholder engagement

Startup advisory experience

Generative AI development

Education

Bachelor's degree or equivalent practical experience

Tools

BigQuery

Spark

Kafka

Vertex AI Vector Search

Job description

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

You will act as a trusted advisor to optimize technical architectures, enable real-time analytics, and drive strategic business outcomes, with a focus on AI workloads and scalable cloud designs.