Customer Engineer, UK/IE Startups

Salary: £160,000 - 200,000 per year

Requirements:

• Bachelors degree in Computer Science, Engineering, a related technical field, or equivalent practical experience.
• 10 years of experience in a customer-facing technical role (e.g., Customer Engineer, Solutions Architect, or Developer Advocate) within the cloud computing industry.
• Experience designing, architecting, and deploying cloud-native applications, containerized environments (Kubernetes/GKE), and modern data pipelines.
• Experience working directly within or as a technical advisor to high-growth, venture-backed startups or scaleups.
• Background as a CTO, lead architect, or head of engineering at a startup, or equivalent experience navigating fast-paced startup lifecycles.
• Strong understanding of modern data warehouse architectures, real-time analytics, and data governance (e.g., BigQuery, Spark, Kafka).
• Deep technical expertise in Generative AI development (e.g., prompt engineering, model tuning, vector databases like Vertex AI Vector Search, and AI frameworks like LangChain or LlamaIndex).
• Active participation in the startup and AI ecosystem, with a track record of public speaking, technical writing, or community contribution.

Responsibilities:

• Deliver compelling presentations, product demonstrations, and technical workshops at Google events, accelerator programs, local startup hubs, and industry conferences.
• Build and nurture strong, trusted-advisor relationships with startup CTOs, founders, lead architects, and engineering teams.
• Help customers design and scale modern data platforms using BigQuery, real-time streaming, and vector databases as the core foundation for their application logic and AI capabilities.
• Guide startups on implementing advanced AI workloads, including Generative AI, Large Language Models (LLMs), RAG systems, and agentic workflows, utilizing both first-party and partner model ecosystems.
• Partner with the Sales team to qualify opportunities, address technical objections, and design secure, scalable, and cost-effective cloud architectures.
• Lead high-impact technical engagements with rapidly scaling, high-potential startups and VC-backed businesses.
• Help startup founders, CTOs, and developers scale their products on Google Cloud.
• Act as a trusted advisor to accelerate product delivery, optimize technical architecture, and drive strategic business outcomes.

Technologies:

• AI
• Architect
• BigQuery
• Cloud
• CTO
• Data Warehouse
• Kafka
• Kubernetes
• RAG
• Spark
• DevOps

More:

As a Customer Engineer in our UK/IE Startups & Scaleups Growth team, we lead high-impact technical engagements with rapidly scaling, high-potential startups and VC-backed businesses. We help startup founders, CTOs, and developers scale their products on Google Cloud, acting as trusted advisors to accelerate product delivery, optimize technical architecture, and drive strategic business outcomes. We are part of Google Cloud, which accelerates every organizations ability to digitally transform its business and industry. We deliver enterprise-grade solutions powered by Googles cutting-edge technology and tools that help developers build more sustainably. Customers in more than 200 countries and territories turn to us as their trusted partner to enable growth and solve their most critical business problems.

last updated 34 week of 2026