Customer Engineer III, Modernization, Public Sector

The application window will be open until at least June 11, 2026. This opportunity will remain online based on business needs which may be before or after the specified date.

In accordance with Washington state law, we are highlighting our comprehensive benefits package, which is available to all eligible US based employees. Benefits for this role include:

• Health, dental, vision, life, disability insurance
• Retirement Benefits: 401(k) with company match
• Paid Time Off: 20 days of vacation per year, accruing at a rate of 6.15 hours per pay period for the first five years of employment
• Sick Time: 40 hours/year (increased to 69 hours/year for Seattle) including 5 discretionary sick days per instance
• Maternity Leave (Short-Term Disability + Baby Bonding): 28-30 weeks
• Baby Bonding Leave: 18 weeks
• Holidays: 13 paid days per year

Preferred working locations:
Reston, VA, USA;
Austin, TX, USA;
Boulder, CO, USA;
Sunnyvale, CA, USA;
Washington D.C., DC, USA.

• Bachelor's degree or equivalent practical experience.
• 10 years of experience in reading/debugging code written in a general purpose coding language (e.g., Java, C, C++, Python, Shell, Go or JavaScript, etc.) and in virtualization and orchestration frameworks.
• 5 years of experience troubleshooting and advocating for customer needs, and triaging technical issues (e.g., hardware, software, application, operational, process).
• Experience engaging with, presenting to, or influencing technical stakeholders or executive leaders.

• Experience with architectural design patterns, platform engineering (e.g. Infrastructure-as-Code, automation, image management or repository management), virtualization deployments, container deployments, application security, or networking.
• Experience with developing scalable architectures using API management, microservice frameworks, and PaaS.
• Experience building cloud native, distributed applications such as microservices and messaging systems.
• Experience working with serverless technologies, CI/CD pipelines, and building AI driven applications.
• Experience with the software development life-cycle.
• Ability to travel up to 30% of time to customer sites, conferences, and other related events as needed, acting as a public advocate for Google Cloud.

As an Application Modernization Customer Engineering Specialist in Google Public Sector, you will leverage your experience and thought leadership to empower sales teams in incubating, piloting, and deploying Google Cloud's industry-leading Application Modernization portfolio. You will partner with technical sales teams to differentiate Google Cloud to our customers, 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.

The US base salary range for this full-time position is $153,000-$222,000 + bonus + equity + benefits. Your recruiter can share more about the specific salary range for your preferred location during the hiring process.

• Guide customers through assessments of their existing legacy application environments, provide recommendations on a prioritization roadmap for application modernization, and identify opportunities for migration to hybrid-cloud computing models.
• Structure and execute prototyping workshops to prove out proposed architectures, developing best practices, and documenting blocking requirements for prioritization with engineering.
• Travel to customer sites, conferences, and other related events as required, acting as a public advocate for Google Cloud.
• Employ coding, debugging, or systems design to resolve technical blockers and accelerate deployment.

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 Google’s EEO Policy and EEO is the Law.

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