Cloud Platform Engineer Jobs in Washington
Cloud Platform Engineer jobs in Washington are among the most active in the country, concentrated in cloud infrastructure, enterprise DevOps, and platform reliability engineering across technology, aerospace, and government contracting sectors, with openings at every level from junior cloud associate through staff and principal engineer. The heaviest hiring is in Seattle, Redmond, and Bellevue, where Amazon Web Services, Microsoft, and Boeing anchor a dense ecosystem of cloud platform work. Kubernetes, Terraform, and multi-cloud architecture are the most consistently sought specializations across Washington listings. Find a role that fits below and apply directly.
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- 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
Minimum qualifications:
- Bachelor's degree or equivalent practical experience.
- 4 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 working with, or presenting to, technical stakeholders or executive leaders.
- Experience in programming languages, debugging, systems design, prototyping, demos, or customer workshops.
Preferred qualifications:
- 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 working with, and passion for, the startup ecosystem.
- Experience building AI agents and tools and an understanding of their unique security implications.
About the job
The Google Cloud Platform team helps customers transform and build what's next for their business — all with technology built in the cloud. Our products are developed for security, reliability and scalability, running the full stack from infrastructure to applications to devices and hardware. Our teams are dedicated to helping our customers — developers, small and large businesses, educational institutions and government agencies — see the benefits of our technology come to life. As part of an entrepreneurial team in this rapidly growing business, you will play a key role in understanding the needs of our customers and help shape the future of businesses of all sizes use technology to connect with customers, employees and partners.
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 issues. 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 issues. You will drive the technical win and define the delivery and consumption plans. You will use your 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, and data analytics.
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: $104000 - $150000 (USD) + 42.86% bonus target + equity + benefits
Learn more about benefits at Google.
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.
- 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
Minimum qualifications:
- Bachelor's degree or equivalent practical experience.
- 4 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 working with, or presenting to, technical stakeholders or executive leaders.
- Experience in programming languages, debugging, systems design, prototyping, demos, or customer workshops.
Preferred qualifications:
- 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 working with, and passion for, the startup ecosystem.
- Experience building AI agents and tools and an understanding of their unique security implications.
About the job
The Google Cloud Platform team helps customers transform and build what's next for their business — all with technology built in the cloud. Our products are developed for security, reliability and scalability, running the full stack from infrastructure to applications to devices and hardware. Our teams are dedicated to helping our customers — developers, small and large businesses, educational institutions and government agencies — see the benefits of our technology come to life. As part of an entrepreneurial team in this rapidly growing business, you will play a key role in understanding the needs of our customers and help shape the future of businesses of all sizes use technology to connect with customers, employees and partners.
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 issues. 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 issues. You will drive the technical win and define the delivery and consumption plans. You will use your 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, and data analytics.
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: $104000 - $150000 (USD) + 42.86% bonus target + equity + benefits
Learn more about benefits at Google.
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.
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What Washington Employers Look For
The qualifications that appear most often in cloud platform engineer jobs across Washington.
- Proficiency with major cloud providers such as AWS, Azure, or Google Cloud Platform
- Hands-on experience with infrastructure-as-code tools including Terraform or Pulumi
- Demonstrated expertise in container orchestration using Kubernetes and Docker
- Strong background in CI/CD pipeline design and DevOps engineering practices
- Experience supporting enterprise-scale platform environments in regulated or high-availability contexts
- Bachelor's degree in computer science, software engineering, or a closely related technical field
Cloud Platform Engineer Jobs in Washington: Frequently Asked Questions
How do you become a cloud platform engineer in Washington?
Cloud platform engineering in Washington has no state-issued license requirement, so the path runs through technical education and credentials. Most Washington employers hire candidates with a bachelor's degree in computer science or a related field, though candidates who hold cloud provider certifications such as AWS Certified Solutions Architect, Microsoft Azure Administrator, or Google Professional Cloud Architect are consistently competitive. Building hands-on experience through labs, open-source projects, or adjacent roles in systems administration or software development strengthens any application.
How much do cloud platform engineers make in Washington?
Cloud platform engineers in Washington earn a median of about $166,540 a year, based on May 2025 Bureau of Labor Statistics wage data, ranging from around $96,810 for the lowest 10% to over $255,350 for the top 10%. Pay rises with experience, specialty, and employer.
Which companies hire cloud platform engineers in Washington?
Employers hiring cloud platform engineers in Washington right now include Google, ByteDance, and Goldman Sachs, based on current listings on Migrate Mate as of November 2026. Washington's concentration of global technology headquarters and major defense contractors means demand for cloud platform talent remains broad and consistent across both commercial and government-adjacent work.
Which Washington cities have the most cloud platform engineer jobs?
Seattle, Kirkland, and Renton have the most cloud platform engineer openings in Washington. Seattle and Bellevue drive the bulk of listings because major cloud providers and technology companies are headquartered or have large engineering campuses there, while Redmond contributes significantly through Microsoft's cloud division and the cluster of partners and vendors that locate near it.
Are there remote cloud platform engineer jobs in Washington?
Yes, and more than most fields. About 20% of cloud platform engineer openings tied to Washington are remote or hybrid as of November 2026, reflecting how naturally suited infrastructure and platform work is to distributed teams. The most remote-friendly portions of the role tend to be infrastructure-as-code development, monitoring and observability work, and platform automation, while production incident response and stakeholder architecture reviews often lean toward hybrid arrangements.
How can I get hired as a cloud platform engineer in Washington with little or no experience?
The most realistic entry path is moving into a cloud platform role from a systems administration, site reliability, or junior DevOps position, which large Washington technology employers treat as a direct pipeline. Companies like Amazon and Microsoft run university hiring programs and associate cloud engineer rotations aimed at new graduates, and Washington's community college system offers cloud computing certificates that signal readiness to smaller employers. Building a portfolio with Terraform and Kubernetes projects on public repositories and earning a foundational cloud certification before applying significantly improves early-career candidacy.
Where can I find and apply to cloud platform engineer jobs in Washington?
You can find and apply to cloud platform engineer jobs in Washington on Migrate Mate, which lists current Washington openings across Seattle, Bellevue, Redmond, and other hiring areas in the state. Find roles that fit your experience and specialization and apply directly.
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