Principal Workspace Strategic Cloud Engineer, Google Public Sector

Must be a US Citizen to meet customer and compliance requirements, including potential access to classified information.

The application window will be open until at least February 09, 2026. This opportunity will remain online based on business needs which may be before or after the specified date.

Note: By applying to this position you will have an opportunity to share your preferred working location from the following: Reston, VA, USA; Austin, TX, USA; Boulder, CO, USA; Sunnyvale, CA, USA; Washington D.C., DC, USA.

Minimum qualifications:

• Bachelor's degree in the field of Science, Technology, Engineering, Math or equivalent practical experience.
• 13 years of experience in system, design troubleshooting, advocating for customer needs, and triaging technical issues (e.g., hardware, software, application, operational, process).
• Experience reading code in a general purpose coding language (e.g., Java, C, C++, Python, Shell, Go, JavaScript) or in system design.
• Active, or the ability to obtain, a Secret security clearance.

Preferred qualifications

• Experience with Google Workspace admin console managing users, services, and security settings.
• Familiarity with general cloud computing concepts and the Google Cloud ecosystem.
• Understanding of security protocols, data privacy, and how to maintain the security of the Google Workspace domain.
• Ability to provision, manage, and secure user access, create and manage groups, and configure Organizational Units (OUs).
• Excellent skills in controlling and configuring core Google Workspace services like Gmail, Drive, and Calendar.

About the job

The Google Cloud Platform team helps customers transform and build what's next for their business — all with technology built in the cloud. Our products are developed for security, reliability and scalability, running the full stack from infrastructure to applications to devices and hardware. Our teams are dedicated to helping our customers — developers, small and large businesses, educational institutions and government agencies — see the benefits of our technology come to life. As part of an entrepreneurial team in this rapidly growing business, you will play a key role in understanding the needs of our customers and help shape the future of businesses of all sizes use technology to connect with customers, employees and partners.

As a Workspace Strategic Cloud Engineer (SCE), you are a Google Engineer working with Google's most critical Cloud customers. You will support customer implementation of Google Workspace through migration planning, architecture guidance, best practices, user/data migration, interoperability, capacity planning, implementation troubleshooting, monitoring, and much more. You will advocate on behalf of our customers internally to improve our products and our customers journeys in Google Workspace.

Google Public Sector brings the magic of Google to the mission of government and education with solutions purpose-built for enterprises. We focus on helping United States public sector institutions accelerate their digital transformations, and we continue to make significant investments and grow our team to meet the complex needs of local, state and federal government and educational institutions.

The US base salary range for this full-time position is $171,000-$254,000 + 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.

Responsibilities

• Lead deployment planning workshops to scope customer migrations to Google Workspace (GWS), including capabilities, timelines and risks.
• Develop technical architecture to document integrations specific to customer environments.
• Conduct super administrator functions to configure and troubleshoot customer implementations, including networking, identity, security, integrations, etc.
• Project and capture new customer feature requests unique to US Public Sector and interact with GWS Product and Engineering teams to scope deliver.
• Provide subject matter expertise for GWS pre-sales and delivery projects for high priority customer engagements.

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.