Google Jobs – Customer Engineer

About the job

Note: By applying to this position you will have an opportunity to share your preferred working location from the following: London, UK; Manchester, UK.

Minimum qualifications:

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, related technical field, or equivalent practical experience.
• Experience with Analytic Warehouse solutions and data movement from data stores into Analytic Warehouses. Experience with performance/scalability optimizations.
• Experience in implementing analytics systems architecture and cloud computing.
• Experience with technologies, methodologies, and solutions in the technology space.

Preferred qualifications:

• Industry experience or experience working in a specialist area of technology.
• Experience with developing data warehousing, data lakes, batch or real-time event processing, and ETL workflows solutions including architecture design, implementing, tuning, schema design, and query optimization of scalable and distributed systems.
• Experience in writing code in development languages such as Java, Python, JavaScript, C++, Scala, R, or Go.
• Understanding of DNS, TCP, Firewalls, Proxy Servers, Load Balancing, VPN, VPC, and Linux.
• Ability to quickly learn/understand/work with new emerging technologies, methodologies, and solutions.

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.

With companies relying on Google Cloud, we regularly answer questions about technical features, helping customers design architectures, engage in proof of concepts, and troubleshooting potential roadblocks related to database migration and data back ends. As a Sales Engineer for Smart Analytics, you’ll utilize both your technical aptitude and communication skills to address all aspects of the data lifecycle.

Some travel may be required for this role, which will be defined during the hiring process.

Google Cloud provides organizations with leading infrastructure, platform capabilities and industry solutions. We deliver enterprise-grade cloud solutions that leverage Google’s cutting-edge technology to help companies operate more efficiently and adapt to changing needs, giving customers a foundation for the future. Customers in more than 150 countries turn to Google Cloud as their trusted partner to solve their most critical business problems.

Responsibilities

• Challenge and inspire customers and peers to solve difficult problems with ambitious and novel solutions leveraging a sophisticated set of technical competences.
• Work with the team to identify and qualify business opportunities, identify key customer technical objections, and develop a strategy to resolve technical blockers.
• Manage the technical relationship with Google’s customers, including managing product and solution briefings, proof-of-concept work, and the coordination of additional technical resources.
• Work hands-on with customers to demonstrate and prototype Google Cloud product integrations in customer/partner environments.

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. If you have a disability or special need that requires accommodation, please let us know by completing our Accommodations for Applicants form .