Application Modernization Engineer, Professional Services, Google Cloud

Application window open until at least August 14th, 2026; opportunity may close earlier or later based on business needs. Preferred working locations: Austin, TX, USA; Atlanta, GA, USA; Boulder, CO, USA; Chicago, IL, USA.

Minimum Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or equivalent practical experience.
• 6 years of experience leading enterprise application portfolios and associated technologies: VMWare, OpenShift, Kubernetes, etc.
• Experience designing cloud enterprise solutions and supporting customer projects to completion.
• Experience coding in one or more general purpose languages (e.g., Python, Java, Go, C or C++) including data structures, algorithms, and software design.

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience refactoring monolithic applications to microservices, APIs, or serverless models.
• Experience architecting, developing software, or internet scale production-grade cloud solutions in virtualized environments such as Google Cloud Platform or other public clouds.
• Experience leading application modernization or application architecture projects.
• Experience with unit or automated testing tools.

About the Role

The Google Cloud Consulting Professional Services team guides customers through key moments in their cloud journey to help businesses thrive. You will help customers transform and evolve their business using Google’s global network, web-scale data centers, and software infrastructure. As part of this innovative team, you will shape the future of businesses of all sizes and use technology to connect with customers, employees, and partners.

As an Application Modernization Engineer, you will work with customers to transform existing enterprise applications into modern, cloud-native applications to reduce time to launch, increase release frequency, reduce time to recovery, and lower failure rates. You will propose and execute—including code development—approaches to modernize Google’s customers' applications and deploy them to Google Cloud Platform. You will collaborate on application re-design and implementation, including scaling and reliability, and advise on ongoing operations such as roll-outs, monitoring, and more. You will also work closely with Product Management and Product Engineering to build and drive excellence in Google Cloud products.

In this role, you are the Google Engineer working with Google’s most strategic Cloud customers. Together with the team, you will support customer adoption of Google Cloud products through architecture guidance, best practices, application migration, implementation, troubleshooting, monitoring, and more.

Responsibilities

• Be a trusted technical advisor to customers and solve complex software development challenges.
• Deliver modern software to Google’s customers, including creating and executing enterprise application transformation and migration strategies.
• Recommend approaches and estimated effort for application migration and modernization programs.
• Create and deliver best practice recommendations, tutorials, blog articles, and sample code.
• Travel up to 30% for in-region meetings, technical reviews, and onsite delivery activities.

Pay

US: $152,000 - $221,000 (USD) + 15% bonus target + equity + benefits.

Benefits

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