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Customer Engineer, Platform, Federal Financials, Google Public Sector

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Compensation
$152–221K/yr
Location
Washington D.C., DC
Work Authorization
Not specified

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Job overview

The Customer Engineer partners with technical Sales teams to help public-sector customers understand Google Cloud and develop solutions for business and technical challenges. The role spans infrastructure and application modernization, data analytics, and AI/ML workloads. It involves customer engagement, solution architecture, demonstrations, proofs of concept, and troubleshooting, while supporting customer adoption and building long-term relationships.

Skills & qualifications

RequiredNice to have

Skills

Cloud Native ArchitectureStakeholder PresentationsCloud EngineeringContainerization PlatformsGenerative AICustom AI ApplicationsApplication MigrationGeminiAgentic WorkflowsCustomer ProspectingCustomer Relationship ManagementEnterprise SecurityComplex NetworkingAI Pipeline SecurityLLM DeploymentDistributed ArchitecturesCloud Platform MigrationApplication Modernization

Qualifications

Bachelor's Degree or Equivalent10 Years Cloud Native ExperienceUS Citizen or Permanent ResidentEnglish Proficiency

Full job description

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:

  • Bachelor's degree or equivalent practical experience.

  • 10 years of experience with cloud native architecture in a customer-facing or support role.

  • Experience engaging with, or presenting to, technical stakeholders or executive leaders.

  • Experience with cloud engineering or containerization platforms.

  • Experience with GenAI use cases, or deploying custom AI applications.

  • Ability to travel up to 30% of the time.

Preferred qualifications:

  • Experience in migrating applications and services to cloud platforms.

  • Experience architecting innovative solutions and building compelling demonstrations using generative AI technologies, specifically Gemini and autonomous agentic workflows.

  • Experience prospecting, and building and maintaining customer relationships, with excitement for building out Greenfield territories.

  • Understanding of enterprise security and complex networking principles to secure AI pipelines, LLM deployments, and distributed architectures.

  • Ability to rapidly learn and adapt to the fast-paced evolution of emerging AI methodologies and new Google Cloud solutions.

  • 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

  • Work with the team to identify and qualify business opportunities, understand key customer technical objections, and develop the strategy to resolve technical blockers.

  • 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.

  • Work directly with Google Cloud products to demonstrate and prototype integrations in customer and partner environments.

  • Recommend integration strategies, enterprise architectures, platforms, and application infrastructure required to successfully implement a complete solution on Google Cloud.

  • 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.

Information collected and processed as part of your Google Careers profile, and any job applications you choose to submit is subject to Google'sApplicant and Candidate Privacy Policy (./privacy-policy) .

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.

To all recruitment agencies: Google does not accept agency resumes. Please do not forward resumes to our jobs alias, Google employees, or any other organization location. Google is not responsible for any fees related to unsolicited resumes.

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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 https://careers.google.com/eeo/ and https://careers.google.com/jobs/dist/legal/OFCCP_EEO_Post.pdf If you have a need that requires accommodation, please let us know by completing our Accommodations for Applicants form: https://goo.gl/forms/aBt6Pu71i1kzpLHe2.

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
  • Washington, D.C. median$115–185K/yr88 salary ranges
  • US median$113–210K/yr3,541 salary ranges

This range's midpoint, $187K, is 24% above the Washington, D.C. median midpoint ($151K) — in the top quarter of Cloud Engineer salary ranges in Washington, D.C..

Openings
Olive Jobs lists 121 open Cloud Engineer jobs in Washington, D.C. and 4,262 across the US. 7% of them nationwide are listed as remote or flexible.
Hiring the most in Washington, D.C.
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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