Customer Engineer Visa Sponsorship Jobs in Washington DC

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 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 Platform Customer Engineer, you will partner with technical Sales teams to differentiate Google Cloud to 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 (PoCs) and demos, and use your skills 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 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, focus on identifying, pursuing, and winning new business workloads and driving pen testing within existing ones. You will have a breadth of technical expertise, spanning infrastructure modernization, application modernization, data analytics, and more. Google Cloud accelerates every organization’s ability to digitally transform its business and industry. We deliver enterprise-grade solutions that leverage Google’s 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.

The US base salary range for this full-time position is $153,000-$222,000 + bonus + equity + benefits. Our salary ranges are determined by role, level, and location. Within the range, individual pay is determined by work location and additional factors, including job-related skills, experience, and relevant education or training. Your recruiter can share more about the specific salary range for your preferred location during the hiring process.

Please note that the compensation details listed in US role postings reflect the base salary only, and do not include bonus, equity, or benefits. Learn more about benefits at Google.

Minimum qualifications:

• Bachelor's degree or equivalent practical experience.
• 10 years of experience with customer facing technical role - designing, architecting, and deploying production-grade cloud-native solutions.
• Experience engaging with, or presenting to, technical stakeholders or executive leaders.
• Experience with cloud engineering, on-premise engineering, virtualization, or containerization platforms.
• Experience in programming languages, debugging, systems design, prototyping, demos, or customer workshops.

Preferred qualifications:

• Experience architecting and presenting solutions in one or more of the following: data management, data analytics, cloud AI, networking, migrations, security.
• Experience driving the entire business cycle (e.g., defining the delivery and consumption plan and transitioning it for execution).
• Experience with security concepts (e.g., encryption, identity management, access control, attack vectors).
• Experience designing and deploying cloud-native agentic AI systems, with a focus on financial services or insurance use cases.
• Experience leading technical sessions and presenting strategic road maps to customers.
• Ability to map technical solutions to insurance business drivers (e.g., risk, compliance, and policy life cycles).

Responsibilities

• Develop and own the technical account plan and strategy, participating in planning and supporting targeted sales motions.
• Combines 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.

Applicants in the County of Los Angeles: Qualified applications with arrest or conviction records will be considered for employment in accordance with the Los Angeles County Fair Chance Ordinance for Employers and the California Fair Chance Act.

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; New York, NY, USA; Irvine, CA, USA; Washington D.C., DC, USA.

Google is proud to be an equal opportunity workplace and is an affirmative action employer. We are committed to equal employment opportunity regardless of race, color, ancestry, religion, sex, national origin, sexual orientation, age, citizenship, marital status, disability, gender identity or Veteran status. We also consider qualified applicants regardless of criminal histories, consistent with legal requirements. See also Google's EEO Policy and EEO is the Law. If you have a disability or special need that requires accommodation, please let us know by completing our Accommodations for Applicants form.