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Google

Runs Search and YouTube and builds Gemini AI

Platform Customer Engineer - Startups, Google Cloud

Full-Time
$127k - $184k+ 42.86% bonus target + Equity
Senior
Bachelor's
San Francisco, CA, USA
In Person
Solution EngineeringPre-Sales Solution Engineering
Company Historically Provides H1B Sponsorship

About the job

Requirements
  • A bachelor's degree or equivalent practical experience.
  • Six 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.
Responsibilities
  • Develop and own the technical account plan and strategy, participating in planning and supporting business 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.
  • Partner with technical Sales teams to differentiate Google Cloud to customers and serve as the customer's primary technical partner and trusted advisor.
  • Engage in technical-led conversations to understand customers' business challenges; troubleshoot technical questions and roadblocks; engage in proofs of concepts and demos; and architect cross-pillar cloud solutions.
  • Drive the technical win and define delivery and consumption plans.
  • Use strategic acumen and presentation skills to engage with technical and business leaders and present practical solutions on Google Cloud.
  • Identify, pursue, and win new business workloads and drive penetration within existing ones.
  • Blend sales expertise, market knowledge, and direct technical engagement to prove the value of the Google Cloud portfolio.
Desired Qualifications
  • Experience selling technical solutions in one or more of the following: Infrastructure Modernization, Application Modernization, Data Management, Data Analytics, Cloud AI, Networking, Migrations, or Security.
  • Experience driving the entire business cycle, such as 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 such as encryption, identity management, access control, attack vectors, or penetration testing.

About the company

Google runs the world's most used search engine and free services such as YouTube, Android, and Gmail, and it builds the Gemini AI models that work inside them. In 2017, its researchers invented the transformer, the neural network design behind ChatGPT and most other AI chatbots. People use these services without paying, and Google earns most of its money from ads placed beside search results and YouTube videos. Businesses rent computing power and Gemini models through Google Cloud, and Google also sells subscriptions and Pixel phones. Larry Page and Sergey Brin founded Google in 1998 as Stanford PhD students; it is based in Mountain View, California, United States, and is the main business of parent company Alphabet.

Company Size

10,001+

Company Stage

IPO

Headquarters

Mountain View, California

Founded

1998

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What believers are saying

  • Gemini caught on: its app's monthly users rose from 400 million in May 2025 to 1 billion by August 2026.
  • Cloud work is booked years ahead: Google Cloud had $514 billion of signed contracts still to deliver in June 2026.
  • Stock awards gained value: Alphabet shares rose 44% in the 12 months to October 2026, versus 2% for Microsoft.

What critics are saying

  • Cloud is still third: Google held 15% market share in the June 2026 quarter, behind Amazon's 28% and Microsoft's 20%.
  • AI spending outruns cash: Alphabet spent $44.9 billion on equipment in the June 2026 quarter, more than operations generated.
  • AI leadership is turning over: in August 2026, Demis Hassabis handed off running Google DeepMind, and veteran Jeff Dean left.

What makes Google unique

  • Consumer apps earn most profit: Google Services made $39.5 billion operating profit in the June 2026 quarter, 4.5 times Cloud.
  • Rivals rent its homemade AI chips: Claude maker Anthropic agreed in October 2025 to use up to 1 million TPUs.
  • Android dominates mobile browsing: it had 69% of global mobile web use in September 2026, versus 31% for iPhones.

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Benefits

  • Hybrid Work Options
  • Remote Work Options
  • Performance Bonus
  • Company Equity

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