Google

Customer Engineer III, Platform, Startup, Google Cloud

Google$152K — $222K *
Technical Services
8 - 10 years of experience
Job Overview by Ladders

Qualifications

  • Bachelor's degree or equivalent practical experience.
  • 10 years of cloud native architecture experience in support roles.
  • Proficiency in cloud engineering, virtualization, and containerization platforms.
  • Engagement and presentation experience with technical and executive stakeholders.
  • Background in programming, debugging, systems design, or customer workshops.
  • Willingness to travel up to 10%.
  • Deep expertise in AI, especially Generative AI and Large Language Models.

Responsibilities

  • Develop and execute the technical account plan and strategy for targeted sales.
  • Leverage sales, programming, and solutions architecture skills for impactful demos and workshops.
  • Architect comprehensive solutions and drive technical wins, defining delivery plans.
  • Support post-sales transition, aiding in pricing activities and implementation handoff.
  • Monitor delivery plan progress and assist cross-functional teams during implementation phases.

Benefits

  • Comprehensive health, wellness, and retirement benefits.
  • Generous vacation and leave policies.
  • Opportunities for professional development and upskilling.
  • Supportive work environment fostering collaboration and innovation.
  • Equity benefits and performance bonuses.
Full Job Description
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 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 10% of the time.

Preferred qualifications:
  • Deep domain expertise in Artificial Intelligence (AI) and Infrastructure, specifically around Generative AI inferencing, Large Language Models (LLMs), and GPU infrastructure/workloads.
  • Experience selling technical solutions in one or more of the following: Infrastructure Modernization, Application Modernization, Data Management, Data Analytics, Cloud AI, Networking, Migrations, Security.
  • Experience driving the entire sales cycle (e.g., defining the delivery and consumption plan and transitioning it for execution).
  • Experience building long-term technical strategies to uncover new workloads with customers.
  • Experience migrating applications and services to cloud platforms.
  • Experience with security concepts (e.g., encryption, identity management, access control, attack vectors, penetration testing).


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.

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.

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

US: $152000 - $222000 (USD) 42.86% bonus target equity benefits

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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.


About Google

Google is a multinational technology company that specializes in Internet-related services and products. These include online advertising technologies, search engine, cloud computing, software, and hardware. Google was founded in 1998 by Larry Page and Sergey Brin while they were Ph.D. students at Stanford University. The company has grown tremendously since then and has become one of the most valuable companies in the world. Google's mission is to organize the world's information and make it universally accessible and useful.
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Net Income
$40.2 billion
Founded
1998
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$182.5 billion
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