--- title: Customer Engineer III, Platform, Cloud at Google description: Google is hiring for the Customer Engineer III, Platform, Cloud role in San Francisco, CA. See the full description and apply. type: job url: https://www.foundrole.com/jobs/customer-engineer-iii-platform-cloud-at-google-01a113c0-a85e-7e2f-8f86-44ef61f3a936 date: 2026-10-07T01:16:39Z og_description: Join Google as Customer Engineer III, Platform, Cloud in San Francisco, CA. Pays $152K–$221K per year. og_image: https://www.foundrole.com/og/i27oc0.png breadcrumbs: - label: Home url: https://www.foundrole.com/ - label: Search url: https://www.foundrole.com/jobs --- | | | |---|---| | **Company** | [Google](https://www.foundrole.com/companies/google?utm_source=ai_markdown) | | **Location** | San Francisco, CA | | **Salary** | $152K/yr - $221K/yr | | **Posted** | Oct 06, 2026 | ## Description 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. As a Customer Engineer, 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 use your expertise and presentation skills to engage with customers to understand their business and technical requirements, and persuasively present practical and useful solutions on Google Cloud. You will have excellent technical, communication and organizational skills. In this role, you will focus on a range of customer opportunities as a technical generalist, spanning infrastructure modernization, application modernization, data analytics and more. You will have a passion for building new relationships, with experience in prospecting and building out greenfield territories. You will be a part of a team of fellow Googlers working in an environment of respect where we promote equal opportunities to succeed. 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: $152000 - $221000 (USD) + 42.86% bonus target + equity + benefits Learn more about [benefits at Google](https://www.google.com/about/careers/applications/benefits/). - 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. ### 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 with cloud engineering, on-premise engineering, virtualization, or containerization platforms. - Experience engaging with, and presenting to, technical stakeholders and executive leaders. ### Preferred qualifications: - Experience in migrating applications and services to cloud platforms. - Experience with security concepts such as encryption, identity management, access control, attack vectors, and penetration testing. - Experience prospecting, and building and maintaining customer relationships from scratch, with excitement for building out Greenfield territories. - Bachelor's degree or equivalent practical experience. - 10 years of experience with cloud native architecture in a customer-facing or support role. - Experience with cloud engineering, on-premise engineering, virtualization, or containerization platforms. - Experience engaging with, and presenting to, technical stakeholders and executive leaders. ## Skills - Cloud Computing - Penetration Testing - Encryption - Sales Prospecting - IT Modernization - Cloud Architecture - Customer Relationship Management - Presentation Skills - On-Premises Infrastructure - Containerization - Identity And Access Management - Google Cloud Platform (Gcp) - Organizational Skills - Adobe Creative Cloud Software - Data Analysis - Cloud Engineering - Demonstration Skills - Virtualization - Attack Vectors ## Related - [More jobs at Google](https://www.foundrole.com/companies/google?utm_source=ai_markdown) - [Technology & Software jobs](https://www.foundrole.com/careers/technology-and-software?utm_source=ai_markdown)- [Network & Systems Administration jobs](https://www.foundrole.com/careers/technology-and-software/network-and-systems-administration?utm_source=ai_markdown)- [IT Infrastructure Support Engineer jobs](https://www.foundrole.com/careers/technology-and-software/network-and-systems-administration/it-infrastructure-support-engineer?utm_source=ai_markdown)- [Browse all companies](https://www.foundrole.com/companies?utm_source=ai_markdown) ## Explore this job market - 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