Customer Engineer at Google

Seniority in posting: Mid

Language

Compensation

€112,000 – €114,000/yr

Setup: Hybrid
Location: Berlin · Munich, Bavaria
Type: Full-time
Level: senior
Posted: Aug 27, 2026

Description

Google is hiring a Customer Engineer to partner with technical sales teams and serve as a hybrid cloud subject matter expert for startups and scaleups. The role involves qualifying cloud opportunities, educating customers, developing cloud solutions and architectures, leading proof-of-concepts, troubleshooting technical issues, and presenting Google Cloud solutions. The engineer will work with cloud-native application architectures, networking, microservices, container orchestrators, and data-center modernization, with travel to customer sites and events. The position is based in Berlin or Munich, Germany, with a stated base salary of €112,000–€114,000 plus a bonus target, equity, and benefits.

Required Skills

Hybrid cloud
Cloud-native architecture
Platform engineering
Container deployments
Application security
Networking
Kubernetes
Microservices
Technical sales

Additional Information

Minimum Education: Bachelor's degree or equivalent practical experience
Required Previous Experiences: 6 years of experience with architectural design patterns, platform engineering, virtualization, container deployments, application security, or networking
Experience working with and presenting to technical stakeholders and executive leaders
Preferred Qualifications: Experience working with the startup ecosystem
Experience in technical sales or consulting in cloud computing, application development, and cloud-native architectures
Experience assessing and building cloud-native software architectures, including application runtimes, databases, serverless environments, container and Kubernetes stacks, and event-driven designs
Expertise in application development for AI use cases, including AI integration, agents, and AI-empowered applications