Customer Engineer II, Early Stage Startups

3 Days ago • 6 Years + • DevOps • $125,000 PA - $183,000 PA

Job Summary

Job Description

As a Customer Engineer II focusing on early-stage startups, you'll be a key player in expanding Google Cloud's reach within the startup ecosystem. Responsibilities include identifying and qualifying business opportunities, resolving technical blockers, and sharing in-depth Google Cloud expertise. You'll work directly with customers, supporting bid responses, conducting proof-of-concept work, and collaborating with product management. You'll also be responsible for recommending integration strategies, enterprise architectures, and leading the acquisition of new clients. Strong technical skills, communication abilities, and experience in prospecting and building greenfield territories are essential.
Must have:
  • 6+ years cloud architecture experience
  • Customer-facing or support role experience
  • Expertise in cloud solutions & architectures
  • Strong communication & presentation skills
  • Experience with startups
  • Lead new customer acquisitions
Good to have:
  • Security concepts (encryption, IAM, access control)
  • Application & service migration to cloud platforms
  • Experience building Greenfield territories
Perks:
  • Bonus
  • Equity
  • Benefits

Job Details


Minimum qualifications:

  • Bachelor's degree or equivalent practical experience.
  • 6 years of experience with cloud architectures in a customer-facing or support role.

Preferred qualifications:

  • Experience with security concepts such as encryption, identity management, access control, attack vectors, and penetration testing.
  • Experience in prospecting, building and maintaining new customer relationships, with building Greenfield territories.
  • Experience in migrating applications and services to cloud platforms.
  • Experience working with the startup ecosystem.

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 listen and 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.

In this role, you will partner with technical Business teams to differentiate Google Cloud to our customers across the startup ecosystem. 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 understand customers business and technical requirements, and persuasively present solutions on Google Cloud. You will have excellent technical, communication and organizational skills.

You will focus on customer opportunities as a technical generalist, spanning infrastructure modernization, application modernization, data analytics and more. You will be build new relationships, with experience in prospecting and building out greenfield territories.

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.

The US base salary range for this full-time position is $125,000-$183,000 + 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 .

Responsibilities

  • 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 team to prioritize solutions impacting customer adoption to Google Cloud.
  • Work 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 and prospect the acquisitions of new logos. Create and build customer relationships, and establish yourself as a trusted advisor on their long-term technology and business decisions. 

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