Google

Practice Customer Engineer, Data Analytics, Google Cloud

Google$192K — $267K *
Information Technology
8 - 10 years of experience
Job Overview by Ladders

Qualifications

  • Bachelor's degree or equivalent practical experience.
  • 10 years in a cloud native architecture role, ideally customer-facing.
  • Proficiency in 'Big Data' technologies, data processing, and SQL.
  • Experience engaging with technical stakeholders and executives.
  • Ability to use programming languages like Python and SQL for customer interactions.

Responsibilities

  • Drive technical wins for complex workloads in Data Analytics.
  • Develop custom solutions through sales strategies and prototyping.
  • Act as a technical advisor, building long-lasting customer relationships.
  • Contribute insights from customer engagements to reusable assets.
  • Provide feedback to Product and Engineering teams to refine solutions.

Benefits

  • Health, dental, vision, life, and disability insurance.
  • 401(k) with company match for retirement savings.
  • 20 days of vacation per year, with increasing accrual over time.
  • 40 hours of sick leave per year, extended for Seattle employees.
  • Generous maternity leave program and baby bonding leave.
  • 13 paid holidays annually.
Full Job Description
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This role may also be located in our Playa Vista, CA campus.

The application window will be open until at least August 24, 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: Sunnyvale, CA, USA; Atlanta, GA, USA; Austin, TX, USA; Boulder, CO, USA; Chicago, IL, USA; Kirkland, WA, USA; Los Angeles, CA, USA; New York, NY, USA; Seattle, WA, USA; San Francisco, CA, USA; Portland, OR, USA; Phoenix, AZ, USA.

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 "Big Data" technologies or concepts (e.g., analytics warehousing, data processing, data transformation, data governance, data migrations, ETL, ELT, SQL, Spark, performance or scalability optimizations, batch versus streaming).
  • Experience engaging with, or presenting to, technical stakeholders or executive leaders.
  • Experience using programming languages (e.g., Python, Spark, SQL) to demo, prototype, or workshop with customers.

Preferred qualifications:
  • Experience with developing data warehousing, data lakes, batch or real-time event processing and ETL workflows solutions (i.e. Informatica, Talend, Alooma, SAP, Data Services) which could include architecture design, implementing, tuning, schema design, and query optimization of scalable and distributed systems.
  • Experience with technical sales or professional consulting in the fields of cloud computing, data, information lifecycle management, and Big Data.
  • Experience in writing code in a common development languages such as Java, Python, JavaScript, C , Scala, R or Go.
  • Ability to address DNS, TCP, Firewalls, Proxy Servers, Load Balancing, VPN and VPC and working knowledge of Linux.


About the job

When leading companies choose Google Cloud, it's a huge win for spreading the power of cloud computing globally. Once educational institutions, government agencies, and other businesses sign on to use Google Cloud products, you come in to facilitate making their work more productive, mobile, and collaborative. You listen and deliver what is most helpful for the customer. You assist fellow sales Googlers by problem-solving key technical issues for our customers. You liaise with the product marketing management and engineering teams to stay on top of industry trends and devise enhancements to Google Cloud products.

As a Practice Customer Engineer (CE) with a specialty in Data Analytics, 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 design data foundation architectures and develop MVPs (Minimum Viable Products) to sell new, highly specialized solutions to customers. You will solve analytics-centered customer challenges and provide a critical feedback loop to unblock customers and influence 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: $192000 - $267000 (USD) 42.86% bonus target equity benefits

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Responsibilities
  • Drive the technical win for complex workloads within Data Analytics to ensure rapid and successful adoption, primarily supporting the sales cycle from use case identification, technical evaluation, and 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.
  • Provide critical feedback from customer engagements to Product and Engineering teams to improve architectures and solutions. 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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