Customer Engineer III, Outcome, GCP, Google Cloud

Google; Boulder (CO); On-site; USD 152,000 - 221,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health, dental, vision, life, disable

401(k) with company match

PTO 20 days per year

Sick Time 40 hours/year

Maternity Leave 28-30 weeks

Baby Bonding Leave 18 weeks

Holidays 13 paid days

Job summary

Google is seeking a Cloud Architect to join the Google Cloud Platform team, working across Boulder, Kirkland, and Seattle locations. The role focuses on deploying complex cloud solutions, coordinating cross-functional teams, and engaging with customer stakeholders to deliver scalable architectures.

Applicants should have a Bachelor's degree or equivalent, 10 years of cloud-native experience, and the ability to travel up to 25%.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree or equivalent practical experience.
• 10 years of experience with cloud native architecture in a customer-facing or support role.
• Experience in deployment planning, orchestration, or change management.
• Experience in programming languages, debugging, or systems design.
• Experience engaging with, presenting to, or managing technical stakeholders or executive leaders.
• Ability to travel up to 25% of the time as needed.

Responsibilities

• Develop and orchestrate a structured, end-to-end deployment plan across customer, professional services, and partner teams, on-boarding the implementation team, clearing blockers, managing timelines and progress, and ensuring readiness (e.g., capacity, training).
• Employ coding, debugging, or systems design to resolve technical blockers and accelerate deployment.
• Drive and track progress of the initial and ongoing ramp of workloads, moving customers from agreement to consumption as quickly as possible.
• Identify expansion opportunities for new workloads within the account during project execution.
• Sustain product usage to help customers realize value on an ongoing basis and secure future agreement renewals.

Skills

Cloud-native architecture

Deployment planning

Orchestration

Change management

Programming languages

Stakeholder management

Travel up to 25%

Communication skills

Education

Bachelor's degree or equivalent practical experience

Tools

Python

Java

Google Cloud

Job description

The application window will be open until at least October 2nd, 2026. This opportunity will remain online based on business needs which may be before or after the specified date.

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: Boulder, CO, USA; Kirkland, WA, USA; Seattle, WA, USA

Minimum qualifications:

• Bachelor's degree or equivalent practical experience.
• 10 years of experience with cloud native architecture in a customer-facing or support role.
• Experience in deployment planning, orchestration, or change management.
• Experience in programming languages, debugging, or systems design.
• Experience engaging with, presenting to, or managing technical stakeholders or executive leaders.
• Ability to travel up to 25% of the time as needed.

Preferred qualifications:

• Experience selling technical solutions in one or more of the following areas: infrastructure modernization, application modernization, data management, data analytics, AI, networking, migrations or security.
• Experience with Google Cloud products and differentiation from competition.
• Experience working with product and capacity teams to resolve technical and capacity blockers.
• Experience with object-oriented programming languages (i.e. Python, Java), and using technical proficiencies to remove blockers and accelerate customer deployment.
• Experience implementing multi-agent systems using frameworks (e.g., A2A, LangGraph, CrewAI, AutoGen).
• Experience navigating the startup life-cycle, from initial prototyping with AI Studio to scaling and achieving product-market fit on Vertex AI.

About The Job

The Google Cloud Platform team helps customers transform and build what's next for their business — all with technology built in the cloud. Our products are developed for security, reliability and scalability, running the full stack from infrastructure to applications to devices and hardware. Our teams are dedicated to helping our customers — developers, small and large businesses, educational institutions and government agencies — see the benefits of our technology come to life. As part of an entrepreneurial team in this rapidly growing business, you will play a key role in understanding the needs of our customers and help shape the future of businesses of all sizes use technology to connect with customers, employees and partners.

Individual pay is determined by factors including job-related skills, experience, and relevant education or training.

US: $152000 - $221000 (USD) + 42.86% bonus target + equity + benefits

Responsibilities

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• Develop and orchestrate a structured, end-to-end deployment plan across customer, professional services, and partner teams, on-boarding the implementation team, clearing blockers, managing timelines and progress, and ensuring readiness (e.g., capacity, training).
• Employ coding, debugging, or systems design to resolve technical blockers and accelerate deployment.
• Drive and track progress of the initial and ongoing ramp of workloads, moving customers from agreement to consumption as quickly as possible.
• Identify expansion opportunities for new workloads within the account during project execution.
• Sustain product usage to help customers realize value on an ongoing basis and secure future agreement renewals.

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 .