Customer Engineer I, Platform, SMB, Google Cloud

Google LLC; Atlanta (GA); On-site; USD 104,000 - 150,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Equity

Benefits

Job summary

Google LLC in the United States is seeking a Platform Customer Engineer to partner with Sales, differentiate Google Cloud, and act as the trusted technical advisor to customers. You will lead technical conversations, address business challenges, and drive end-to-end cloud solutions.

You will troubleshoot, conduct proofs of concepts, and present actionable architectures to executives and technical teams, helping customers adopt Google Workspace and Gemini Enterprise at scale.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree or equivalent practical experience.
• 4 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.

Responsibilities

• Partner with technical Sales teams to differentiate Google Cloud to customers.
• Serve as the customer’s primary technical partner and trusted advisor.
• Troubleshoot technical questions and roadblocks, engage in proofs of concepts and demos, and use your expertise to architect cross-pillar cloud solutions.
• Drive the technical win and define the delivery and consumption plans.
• Engage with technical and business leaders, and persuasively present practical and useful solutions on Google Cloud.

Skills

Cloud native architecture

Public speaking to technicalstakeh

Customer-facing communication

Programming basics

Education

Bachelor's degree

Tools

Gemini Enterprise

Google Workspace

Job description

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• Bachelor's degree or equivalent practical experience.
• 4 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.

Preferred qualifications:

• Experience in technical cloud ecosystems on enterprise productivity solutions and with related solutions (e.g., messaging, productivity applications, identity management, endpoint management).
• Experience in designing, building, or implementing agentic AI solutions to automate business processes.
• Knowledge of Agentic AI platforms (including Gemini Enterprise), its features, competitive differentiation, and the integration of enterprise-wide data sources and third-party connectors.

About the job

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.

In this role, you will focus on identifying, pursuing, and winning new business workloads and driving penetration within existing ones. You will have a breadth of technical expertise, spanning infrastructure modernization, application modernization, data analytics and more. You will blend sales expertise, market knowledge and direct technical engagement to prove the value of the Google Cloud portfolio.

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: $104000 - $150000 (USD) + 42.86% bonus target + equity + benefits

• Work on identifying and qualifying business opportunities, key customer technical objections, and developing strategy to resolve technical blockers.
• Architect solutions that leverage Gemini Enterprise to automate complex, end-to-end customer workflows.
• Drive the technical adoption of Gemini Enterprise, including managing proof-of-concept work for pre-built and custom AI agents (no-code and code-based) built on the platform.
• Share Google Workspace expertise to support the technical relationship with Google’s customers and partners, including product and solution briefings, proof-of-concept work, and the coordination and prioritization of solutions impacting customer adoption of Google Workspace.
• Educate partners and customers on the power of Google Workspace and Gemini Enterprise - specifically leveraging agentic capabilities and third-party integrations - to drive technical innovation, define product direction, and successfully take new solutions to market.

Google is proud to be an equal opportunity and affirmative action employer. We are committed to building a workforce that is representative of the users we serve, creating a culture of belonging, and providing an equal employment opportunity regardless of race, creed, color, religion, gender, sexual orientation, gender identity/expression, national origin, disability, age, genetic information, veteran status, marital status, pregnancy or related condition (including breastfeeding), expecting or parents-to-be, criminal histories consistent with legal requirements, or any other basis protected by law. See also Google's EEO Policy , Know your rights: workplace discrimination is illegal , Belonging at Google , and How we hire .

Google is a global company and, in order to facilitate efficient collaboration and communication globally, English proficiency is a requirement for all roles unless stated otherwise in the job posting.

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