Agentic Data Cloud Customer Engineer II, Google Cloud

Google; Sunnyvale (CA); Hybrid; USD 127,000 - 184,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health insurance

Dental insurance

Vision insurance

401(k) match

PTO 20 days/year

Job summary

Google Cloud is seeking an Agentic Data Cloud Customer Engineer to be the premier technical advisor, partnering with Sales to map complex data estates and migrate to GCP. You will architect and demonstrate end-to-end Data and AI pipelines for enterprise needs.

You will translate business requirements into scalable data solutions using PySpark, BigQuery, and related tools, while engaging C-level stakeholders in high-impact demonstrations.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree or equivalent practical experience.
• 6+ years in data or systems engineering, solutions architecture, or pre-sales.
• Experience delivering demos, workshops, or architect overviews to business leaders.
• Experience migrating, refactoring, or debugging proprietary or open source workloads.
• Experience building data platforms, warehouses, or data lakes, and data programming languages.

Responsibilities

• Define technical strategy for large accounts, engaging C-level executives via live demonstrations.
• Design, code, and deploy production-grade Data and AI pipelines and map legacy data estates to open-format architectures (Iceberg).
• Orchestrate data engineering to deploy PySpark/dbt pipelines using the Data Agent Kit and related tools.
• Lead showcases and technical value validations using BigQuery, Lakehouse, and AI tools to prove outcomes.
• Conduct TCO analyses and optimize architectures to prevent runaway costs on the Lightning Engine.

Skills

Data engineering

Pre-sales

Python

PySpark

BigQuery

LLM integration

Technical demonstrations

C-level engagement

Communication

Education

Bachelor's degree or equivalent practical experience

Tools

Apache Iceberg

dbt

BigQuery

Spark

Vertex AI

Job description

In accordance with Washington state law, we are highlighting our comprehensive benefits package, which is available to all eligible US based employees. Benefits for this role include:

• Health, dental, vision, life, disability insurance


• Retirement Benefits: 401(k) with company match


• Paid Time Off: 20 days of vacation per year, accruing at a rate of 6.15 hours per pay period for the first five years of employment


• 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

Note: By applying to this position you will have an opportunity to share your preferred working location from the following: New York, NY, USA; Austin, TX, USA; Seattle, WA, USA; Sunnyvale, CA, USA.

Minimum qualifications

• Bachelor's degree or equivalent practical experience.


• 6 years of experience as a data or systems engineer, solutions architect, or pre-sales consultant.


• Experience delivering demos, workshops, or architect overviews to business leaders.


• Experience migrating, refactoring, or debugging proprietary or open source workloads.


• Experience building data platforms, warehouses, or data lakes, and experience with data programming languages and leveraging agentic platforms.

Preferred qualifications

• Experience designing and deploying enterprise Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG) pipelines, LLM application integrations, or context orchestration frameworks.


• Experience implementing enterprise data/AI governance, metadata management, access control, or lineage tracking across modern catalogs.


• Experience with developer advocacy, building internal technical advocate programs, delivering technical enablement, or contributing to open-source data/AI communities.


• Experience in core data science workflows, including proficiency with data manipulation libraries and integrating data pipelines with ML platforms.


• Experience applying value-selling principles to align technical architectures with business outcomes.

About The Job

As an Agentic Data Cloud Customer Engineer, you are the premier technical subject matter expert in your territory. You will partner with Sales Specialists to execute the technical pre-sales strategy for customers, serving as the trusted technical advisor to C-levels, Lead Architects, and Developers. You will lead proactive discoveries to map complex, legacy customer data estates and qualify them for migration to GCP.

You are a builder and architect that designs, codes, and deploys production-grade, end-to-end Data and AI pipelines that solve real-world enterprise problems. You will whiteboard modern open lakehouse architectures and run code demonstrations showing how unified data foundations power deterministic, hallucination-free conversational AI.

Leveraging a background in value-selling, you will conduct detailed Total Cost of Ownership analyses and optimize architectures to prevent runaway spend. You will help customers adopt modern data engineering practices that securely unify data, analytics, and AI. You will use your expertise in Python, PySpark, and distributed data systems, and can translate technical excellence into business-transforming migrations, you will grow in this highly technical role.

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: $127000 - $184000 (USD) + 42.86% bonus target + equity + benefits

Learn more about benefits at Google .

Responsibilities

• Define technical strategy for large accounts, engaging C-level executives via live demonstrations to solve business problems using the Agentic Data Cloud.


• Design, code, and deploy production-grade Data and AI pipelines (e.g., fraud detection, recommendation engines) and map legacy data estates to open-format architectures (Apache Iceberg).


• Orchestrate intent-driven data engineering to autonomously deploy PySpark/dbt pipelines using the Data Agent Kit, Antigravity, and Model Context Protocol.


• Lead high-impact showcases and technical value validations using BigQuery, Borderless Lakehouse, Knowledge Catalog, Spark, and Vertex AI to prove business outcomes.


• Conduct detailed TCO analyses and optimize architectures (such as balancing DRAM/SSD, compute shapes, and token spend) to prevent runaway costs on the Lightning Engine.

Google is proud to be an equal opportunity workplace and is an affirmative action employer. We are committed to equal employment opportunity regardless of race, color, ancestry, religion, sex, national origin, sexual orientation, age, citizenship, marital status, disability, gender identity or Veteran status. We also consider qualified applicants regardless of criminal histories, consistent with legal requirements. See also Google's EEO Policy and EEO is the Law. If you have a disability or special need that requires accommodation, please let us know by completing our Accommodations for Applicants form .