
Customer Engineer II, Platform, East Google Cloud
Chicago, ILJob$127–184K/yrSeen 1 day agoSeen in employer's feed 1 day ago
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The Customer Engineer partners with Sales teams as a technical leader and trusted advisor, translating customer business issues into scalable cloud-native solutions. The role leads technical discovery, solution architecture, proofs of concept, and demonstrations, while driving technical wins and defining adoption paths. It also focuses on identifying new workloads and expanding Google Cloud adoption within customer accounts.
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Customer Engineer II, Platform, East Google Cloud
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XNote: By applying to this position you will have an opportunity to share your preferred working location from the following: New York, NY, USA; Chicago, IL, USA .
Minimum qualifications:
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Bachelor's degree or equivalent practical experience.
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6 years of experience with cloud native architecture in a customer-facing or support role.
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Experience with cloud engineering, on-premise engineering, virtualization, or containerization platforms.
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Experience engaging with, or presenting to, technical stakeholders or executive leaders.
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Experience in programming languages, debugging, systems design, prototyping, demos, or customer workshops.
Preferred qualifications:
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Experience selling technical solutions in one or more of the following: Infrastructure Modernization, Application Modernization, Data Management, Data Analytics, Cloud AI, Networking, Migrations, Security.
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Experience driving the entire business-cycle (e.g., defining the delivery and consumption plan and transitioning it for execution).
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Experience building long-term technical strategies to uncover new workloads with customers.
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Experience migrating applications and services to cloud platforms.
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Experience with security concepts (e.g., encryption, identity management, access control, attack vectors, penetration testing).
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 Customer Engineer, you will partner with Sales teams as the primary technical leader and trusted advisor for our customers. You will work to understand their business issues and translate them into scalable, cloud-native solutions.
You will lead technical discovery, architect solutions, and deliver compelling proofs-of-concept and demonstrations. Leveraging a broad technical expertise across infrastructure modernization, application development, and data analytics, you will design solutions that accelerate our customers' business objectives. You will drive the technical win, articulate the value of our portfolio to both business and technical leaders, and define the path for successful adoption. A key focus will be on identifying new workloads and expanding Google Cloud adoption within customer accounts.
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: $127000 - $184000 (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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Develop and own the technical account plan and strategy, participating in planning and supporting sales motions.
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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.
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Architect cross-pillar solutions, drive technical wins, and define initial delivery plans for customers; continue to lead the technical engagement in the solution phase.
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Facilitate the post-sales transition by supporting pricing activities and transitioning the final delivery plan to implementation teams.
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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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How this job compares
Set against the 4,302 open Cloud Engineer jobs on Olive Jobs, counted October 28, 2026.
- Pay
- This posting$127–184K/yr
- Illinois median$115–191K/yr88 salary ranges
- US median$113–210K/yr3,530 salary ranges
This range's midpoint, $156K, is close to the Illinois median midpoint ($158K) — in the middle half of Cloud Engineer salary ranges in Illinois.
- Openings
- Olive Jobs lists 109 open Cloud Engineer jobs in Illinois and 4,302 across the US. 7% of them nationwide are listed as remote or flexible.
- Hiring the most in Illinois
- Oracle12 open
- Google (this employer)8 open
- Kelly Services8 open
- Experience
- This posting asks for at least 6 years of experience; Cloud Engineer postings that state a minimum ask for 5 years at the median (3,711 postings).
- Education
- 1,910 of the 4,302 open Cloud Engineer jobs (44%) ask for a bachelor's degree or higher.
Counted across the open, public US postings on Olive Jobs on October 28, 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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