Platform Cloud Solutions Engineer — Customer Impact

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

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Benefits

Job summary

Google is seeking a Platform Customer Engineer to partner with Technical Sales, differentiating Google Cloud through technical engagements and cross-pillar solutions.

You will lead technical conversations, run proofs of concepts, and architect delivery plans while engaging with executives and developers to drive business impact. This role emphasizes communication, strategy, and hands-on cloud expertise across modernization and analytics.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree or equivalent practical experience.
• 6 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.
• Ability to travel up to 25% of the time as needed.

Responsibilities

• Develop and own the technical account plan and strategy, participating in planning and supporting targeted sales motions.
• Combine sales, programming, and solutions architecture expertise to prove the value of Google Cloud Platform across the portfolio through complex demos, pilots and in-depth workshops.
• Architect cross-pillar solutions, drive technical wins, and define initial delivery plans for customers; continue to lead the technical engagement in the solution phase.
• Facilitate the post-sales transition by supporting pricing activities and transitioning the final delivery plan to implementation teams.
• Maintain awareness of progress against the delivery plan, providing support to cross-functional teams during ramp, delivery, migration or implementation phases.

Skills

Cloud native architecture

Stakeholder engagement

Programming & debugging

Presentation skills

Travel ability

Education

Bachelor's degree or equivalent practical experience

Tools

Virtualization platforms

Containerization platforms

Cloud engineering platforms

On-premise engineering

Job description

Google is seeking a Platform Customer Engineer to partner with Technical Sales, differentiating Google Cloud through technical engagements and cross-pillar solutions.

You will lead technical conversations, run proofs of concepts, and architect delivery plans while engaging with executives and developers to drive business impact. This role emphasizes communication, strategy, and hands-on cloud expertise across modernization and analytics.