Customer Engineer, Security, Google Cloud

Google; Sunnyvale (CA); On-site; USD 174,000 - 252,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health insurance

Retirement 401(k) match

Paid time off

Sick time

Maternity leave

Baby bonding leave

Holidays

Job summary

Google Cloud is seeking a Senior Cloud Security Architect to help customers secure their cloud workloads and data across multi-cloud environments. You will engage with executives and technical teams to shape security architectures, guide risk decisions, and advocate for best practices across products and solutions.

The role emphasizes AI security, regulatory compliance, and collaboration with Product, Marketing, Legal, and Policy teams. Domestic travel may be required.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree or equivalent practical experience.
• 10 years of experience with cloud native architecture and cybersecurity in a customer-facing or support role.
• Experience with AI Security, Cloud Security posture management, Cloud IAM, network security, data security, regulatory compliance frameworks, or creating security architectures.
• Experience engaging with, and presenting to, technical stakeholders and executive leaders.

Responsibilities

• Identify and qualify business opportunities; understand objections; develop strategy to resolve security blockers.
• Share expertise in security, privacy and regulatory compliance to support technical relationships with customers.
• Work with Google Cloud products to demonstrate and prototype integrations in customer and partner environments.
• Contribute to programs in security, privacy, and compliance; drive internal enablement and customer best practices.
• Travel to customer sites, conferences, and related events as a public advocate for Google Cloud.

Skills

Cloud security

Security architecture

Executive stakeholder communication

Cloud IAM

Regulatory compliance

Education

Bachelor's degree or equivalent

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: Sunnyvale, CA, USA; Kirkland, WA, USA.

Minimum qualifications:

• Bachelor's degree or equivalent practical experience.
• 10 years of experience with cloud native architecture and cybersecurity in a customer-facing or support role.
• Experience with AI Security, Cloud Security posture management, Cloud IAM, network security, data security, regulatory compliance frameworks, or creating security architectures.
• Experience engaging with, and presenting to, technical stakeholders and executive leaders.

Preferred qualifications:

• Experience with architecting and implementing security concepts in the cloud, including: AI Security, Trust and Safety, Identity and Access Management (IAM), Identify Provider (IdP), identity lifecycle management, firewalls, zero trust, secrets management, SecOps, data loss prevention (DLP), or encryption.
• Experience with technical writing, public speaking, or community engagement (e.g., blogs, conferences, open source contributions).
• Experience securing AI/GenAI workloads.
• Experience with multi-cloud solutions.

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. 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: $174000 - $252000 (USD) + 20% bonus target + equity + benefits

Responsibilities

• Work with the team to identify and qualify business opportunities, understand key customer technical objections, and develop the strategy to resolve technical security and compliance blockers.
• Share in-depth expertise in security, privacy and regulatory compliance to support the technical relationship with customers, including technology advocacy, supporting bid responses, product and solution briefings, proof-of-concept work, and partnering directly with product management to prioritize solutions impacting customer adoption to Google Cloud.
• Work directly with Google Cloud products to demonstrate and prototype integrations in customer and partner environments.
• Contribute to programs in areas of security, privacy, and compliance with internal teams, e.g., Marketing, Product, Legal, and Policy. Drive enablement internally to create customer best practices.
• Travel to customer sites, conferences, and other related events as required, acting as a public advocate for Google Cloud.

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.