
Customer Engineer, Platform, Federal Financials, Google Public Sector
Reston, VAJob$152–221K/yrSeen 1w agoSeen in employer's feed 3 days ago
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The Customer Engineer partners with technical Sales teams to present Google Cloud solutions to public-sector customers. The role spans infrastructure and application modernization, data analytics, and AI/ML, including customer requirements discovery, solution architecture, proofs of concept, demonstrations, and troubleshooting. The engineer also supports customer relationships and helps resolve technical objections and adoption barriers. Candidates must be U.S. citizens or permanent residents and able to travel up to 30% of the time.
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Customer Engineer, Platform, Federal Financials, Google Public Sector
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XMust be a US Citizen or Permanent Resident to meet customer and compliance requirements, including potential access to classified information.Note: By applying to this position you will have an opportunity to share your preferred working location from the following: Reston, VA, USA; Washington D.C., DC, USA .
Minimum qualifications:
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Bachelor's degree or equivalent practical experience.
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10 years of experience with cloud native architecture in a customer-facing or support role.
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Experience engaging with, or presenting to, technical stakeholders or executive leaders.
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Experience with cloud engineering or containerization platforms.
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Experience with GenAI use cases, or deploying custom AI applications.
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Ability to travel up to 30% of the time.
Preferred qualifications:
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Experience in migrating applications and services to cloud platforms.
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Experience architecting innovative solutions and building compelling demonstrations using generative AI technologies, specifically Gemini and autonomous agentic workflows.
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Experience prospecting, and building and maintaining customer relationships, with excitement for building out Greenfield territories.
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Understanding of enterprise security and complex networking principles to secure AI pipelines, LLM deployments, and distributed architectures.
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Ability to rapidly learn and adapt to the fast-paced evolution of emerging AI methodologies and new Google Cloud solutions.
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Expertise migrating and modernizing legacy applications to scalable cloud platforms, laying the essential data groundwork for advanced AI/ML workloads.
About the job
As a Customer Engineer in Google Public Sector you will partner with technical Sales teams to differentiate Google Cloud to our customers. You will help prospective and existing customers and partners understand the power of Google Cloud, develop creative cloud solutions and architectures to solve their business challenges, engage in proofs of concepts, and troubleshoot any technical questions and roadblocks. You will engage with customers to understand their business and technical requirements, and persuasively present practical and useful solutions on Google Cloud. You will focus on a range of customer opportunities as a technical generalist, spanning infrastructure modernization, application modernization, data analytics, AI/ML workloads and more.
Google Public Sector (https://about.google/intl/ALL\_us/public-sector/#:~:text=We) brings the magic of Google to the mission of government and education with solutions purpose-built for enterprises. We focus on helping United States public sector institutions accelerate their digital transformations, and we continue to make significant investments and grow our team to meet the complex needs of local, state and federal government and educational institutions.
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
Learn more aboutbenefits at Google (https://www.google.com/about/careers/applications/benefits/) .
Responsibilities
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Work with the team to identify and qualify business opportunities, understand key customer technical objections, and develop the strategy to resolve technical blockers.
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Share in-depth Google Cloud expertise to support the technical relationship with customers, including technology advocacy, supporting bid responses, product and solution briefings, proof-of-concept work, and partnering directly with product management to prioritize solutions impacting customer adoption to Google Cloud.
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Work directly with Google Cloud products to demonstrate and prototype integrations in customer and partner environments.
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Recommend integration strategies, enterprise architectures, platforms, and application infrastructure required to successfully implement a complete solution on Google Cloud.
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Lead prospecting and acquisition of net new logos, creating and building customer relationships from scratch, and establishing yourself as a trusted advisor on their long-term technology and business decisions.
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Google is proud to be an equal opportunity and affirmative action employer. We are committed to building a workforce that is representative of the users we serve, creating a culture of belonging, and providing an equal employment opportunity regardless of race, creed, color, religion, gender, sexual orientation, gender identity/expression, national origin, disability, age, genetic information, veteran status, marital status, pregnancy or related condition (including breastfeeding), expecting or parents-to-be, criminal histories consistent with legal requirements, or any other basis protected by law. See alsoGoogle's EEO Policy (https://www.google.com/about/careers/applications/eeo/) ,Know your rights: workplace discrimination is illegal (https://careers.google.com/jobs/dist/legal/EEOC\_KnowYourRights\_10\_20.pdf) ,Belonging at Google (https://about.google/belonging/) , andHow we hire (https://careers.google.com/how-we-hire/) .
If you have a need that requires accommodation, please let us know by completing ourAccommodations for Applicants form (https://goo.gl/forms/aBt6Pu71i1kzpLHe2) .
Google is a global company and, in order to facilitate efficient collaboration and communication globally, English proficiency is a requirement for all roles unless stated otherwise in the job posting.
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How this job compares
Set against the 4,262 open Cloud Engineer jobs on Olive Jobs, counted October 27, 2026.
- Pay
- This posting$152–221K/yr
- Virginia median$122–200K/yr299 salary ranges
- US median$113–210K/yr3,541 salary ranges
This range's midpoint, $187K, is 14% above the Virginia median midpoint ($164K) — in the middle half of Cloud Engineer salary ranges in Virginia.
- Openings
- Olive Jobs lists 349 open Cloud Engineer jobs in Virginia and 4,262 across the US. 7% of them nationwide are listed as remote or flexible.
- Hiring the most in Virginia
- Accenture29 open
- Capital One25 open
- General Dynamics Information Technology22 open
- Experience
- This posting asks for at least 10 years of experience — more than three in four Cloud Engineer postings that state a minimum ask for (median 5 years, across 3,712 postings).
- Education
- 1,927 of the 4,262 open Cloud Engineer jobs (45%) ask for a bachelor's degree or higher.
Counted across the open, public US postings on Olive Jobs on October 27, 2026. Pay medians are the middle values of the low ends and of the high ends of postings that list both ends of a range in the same cadence (a yearly salary or an hourly rate); a range's midpoint is halfway between its ends. Pay and experience figures resting on fewer than 20 postings are left out.
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