Google

Practice Customer Engineer, Apigee, Google Cloud

Google$152K — $221K *
Enterprise Technology
8 - 10 years of experience
Job Overview by Ladders

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 background in modern application development and middleware technologies.

Responsibilities

  • Drive technical solutions for complex workloads within Apigee/Application Integration.
  • Develop and prototype customer-tailored solutions to secure buy-in from experts.
  • Provide deep technical consultation as an advisor to customers.
  • Contribute insights from customer engagements to enhance solutions and assets.
  • Document and prioritize customer feature requests within Product and Engineering management.

Benefits

  • Health, dental, vision, life, and disability insurance
  • 401(k) retirement plan with company match
  • 20 vacation days per year, accruing 6.15 hours each pay period
  • 40 hours of sick time per year (69 hours in Seattle), plus 5 discretionary sick days
  • 28-30 weeks of maternity leave through short-term disability
  • 18 weeks of baby bonding leave
  • 13 paid holidays per year
Full Job Description
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X 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

Note: By applying to this position you will have an opportunity to share your preferred working location from the following: 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.

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

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Responsibilities
  • 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.


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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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