Customer Engineer IV, Networking, Google Cloud

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The US base salary range for this full-time position is $211,000-$294,000 + 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 benefits at Google.

The application window will be open until at least May 29, 2026. This opportunity will remain online based on business needs which may be before or after the specified date.

This role may also be located in our Playa Vista, CA campus.

Applicants in the County of Los Angeles:
Qualified applications with arrest or conviction records will be considered for employment in accordance with the Los Angeles County Fair Chance Ordinance for Employers and the California Fair Chance Act.

Applicants in San Francisco:
Qualified applications with arrest or conviction records will be considered for employment in accordance with the San Francisco Fair Chance Ordinance for Employers and the California Fair Chance Act.

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

Note:

By applying to this position you will have an opportunity to share your preferred working location from the following:
Sunnyvale, CA, USA;
Atlanta, GA, USA;
Austin, TX, USA;
Boulder, CO, USA;
Cambridge, ON, Canada;
Chicago, IL, USA;
Addison, TX, USA;
Detroit, MI, USA;
Irvine, CA, USA;
Miami, FL, USA;
New York, NY, USA;
Portland, OR, USA;
Los Angeles, CA, USA;
Reston, VA, USA;
Seattle, WA, USA;
San Francisco, CA, 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 in networking, for example, Linux, software-defined networking, network virtualization, open protocols, application acceleration, load balancing, DNS, or virtual private networks.

* Experience working with, and presenting to, technical stakeholders and executive leaders.

* Experience leveraging programming or technical experience to demo, prototype, or workshop with customers.

Preferred qualifications:

* Experience in designing and implementing complex network infrastructure for distributed systems, while migrating application to the cloud.

* Experience with core networking services (e.g. DNS, DHCP, NTP) or protocols (TCP/IP, UDP, BGP, etc.).

* Experience implementing Infrastructure-as-Code (IaC) or Dev Ops methodologies for managing and deploying IT infrastructure.

* Experience in troubleshooting performance and connectivity issues, as well as network security principles, protocols, and best practices.

* Experience in multiple networking disciplines (e.g., networking security, core networking, hybrid networking, networking observability).

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 Sales teams to differentiate Google Cloud to our customers. You will serve as a technical expert responsible for accelerating technical wins and adoption of complex, specialized workloads. You will leverage your deep expertise in our most product areas, in partnership with platform Customer Engineers (CEs), to be writing code to develop prototypes, proofs-of-concept, and demos to sell new, highly specialized solutions to customers.

You will solve networking and network security centered customer challenges and provide a critical feedback loop to influence customers and product…