Practice Customer Engineer, Apigee, Google Cloud

Google; Sunnyvale (CA); On-site; USD 152,000 - 221,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health, dental, vision, life, disabled

401(k) with company match

Paid Time Off: 20 days per year

Sick Time: 40 hours/year (Seattle: 69)

Maternity Leave: 28-30 weeks

Baby Bonding Leave: 18 weeks

Holidays: 13 paid days per year

Job summary

Google Cloud is seeking a Practice Customer Engineer (CE) with a specialty in Apigee to partner with technical Sales teams and differentiate Google Cloud for customers. You will serve as a technical expert accelerating wins and adoption of complex workloads, developing architectures, proofs-of-concept, and demos to sell specialized solutions.

You will engage with customers to understand requirements and present practical, scalable Google Cloud solutions.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree or equivalent practical experience in a technical field.
• 10 years of cloud-native architecture experience in customer-facing roles.
• Experience demoing, prototyping, or workshopping with customers.
• Experience presenting to technical stakeholders or executives.

Responsibilities

• Drive the technical solution for complex workloads within Apigee/Application Integration to support sales.
• Provide functional, customer-tailored solutions to gain buy-in.
• Offer deep technical consultation and build lasting customer relationships.
• Document and drive resolution of feature requests with Product & Engineering.

Skills

Cloud-native architecture

Customer engagement

Prototyping

Executive leadership

Education

Bachelor's degree in a technical field

Job description

The application window will be open until at least September 8, 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

Chicago, IL, USA; Atlanta, GA, USA; Boulder, CO, USA; New York, NY, USA; Seattle, WA, USA; Sunnyvale, CA, USA

Minimum qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in a technical field or equivalent practical experience.
• 10 years of experience with cloud native architecture in a customer-facing or support role.
• Technical experience demoing, prototyping, or workshopping with customers.
• Experience engaging with, or presenting to, technical stakeholders or executive leaders.

Preferred qualifications

• Experience with modern application development, container orchestration systems, middleware technologies, API, and integration platforms.
• Experience with integration architecture patterns, security protocols, enterprise messaging patterns (e.g., APIs, SOA, ESB, or BPM).
• Experience with cloud technologies including SaaS applications, iPaaS, business automation solutions, Cloud infrastructure, Agentic AI, and cloud networking.
• Knowledge of security and understanding of popular API security technologies such as OAuth, mTLS, SAML, JWT, and SSO.
• Understanding of Google Cloud, multi and hybrid-cloud strategies, and associated technologies.

About The Job

As a Practice Customer Engineer (CE) with a specialty in Apigee, you will partner with technical Sales teams to differentiate Google Cloud to our customers. You will serve as a technical expert responsible for accelerating technical wins and adoption of complex, specialized workloads. You will leverage your deep expertise in our most strategic product areas, in partnership with Platform CEs, to develop architectures and prototypes, proofs-of-concept, and demos to sell new, highly specialized solutions to customers. You will solve customer challenges and provide a critical feedback loop to influence customers and product development.

You will have excellent organizational, communication, and presentation skills, engaging with customers to understand their business and technical requirements, and persuasively present practical and useful solutions on Google Cloud. 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: $152000 - $221000 (USD) + 42.86% bonus target + equity + benefits

Responsibilities

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• Drive the technical solution for complex workloads within Apigee/Application Integration product areas to ensure rapid and successful adoption, primarily supporting the sales cycle from technical evaluation through customer ramp.
• Combine sales strategies and direct development and prototyping to provide functional, customer-tailored solutions that secure buy-in from customer domain experts.
• Provide deep technical consultation to customers, acting as a technical advisor and building lasting customer relationships.
• Leverage learnings from customer engagements to contribute to reusable solutions and assets with the Go-To-Market team.
• Work within Product and Engineering management systems to document, prioritize and drive resolution of customer feature requests and issues.

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 .