Job Description

Minimum qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in Science, Technology, Engineering, Mathematics, or equivalent practical experience.
• 13 years of experience troubleshooting and advocating for customer needs, and triaging technical issues (e.g., hardware, software, application, operational, process).
• Experience leading projects or initiatives from design/concept through to delivery (e.g., driving a feature improvement or new internal tool).

Preferred qualifications

• Experience querying, analyzing, and interpreting large datasets using SQL and other data storage/analysis tools (e.g., NoSQL, logs analysis, protocol buffers, MapReduce).
• Experience with public cloud services (Google Cloud Platform), Machine Learning, Generative AI, model evaluation, and supporting hosted applications or FinOps/billing systems.
• Proficiency in coding, debugging, or system design with general-purpose programming languages (e.g., Java, C, C++, Python, Go, Shell, JavaScript, Perl, .NET) and core web technologies, networking, or Linux/Unix administration.
• Proven leadership and technical communication skills to create documentation, influence system architecture, and collaborate across Support and Product Development teams.
• Strong computer fundamentals in web technologies (e.g., HTTP, HTML, DNS, TCP, etc.).

About the job

Cloud Billing Support resolves Billing issues by driving improvements at scale across all Cloud customers. 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.

In this role, you will be responsible for designing the future state of technical support and customer experience for Billing. You will partner with GCP Product teams, Support teams, Development, and other cross-functional leadership to define and drive the strategic roadmap for technical support innovation and agility. You will focus on leading projects to integrate supportability requirements throughout the product life-cycle and defining new standards for support processes, tooling, and operational readiness.

You will be a part of a global team that provides 24x7 support to help customers seamlessly make the switch to Google Cloud. You will own large and important customer issues in addition to providing level two support to other support teams, troubleshooting technical problems for customers with a mix of debugging, networking, system administration, updating documentation, and when needed, coding/scripting. You will make products easier to adopt and use by making improvements to the product, tools, processes and documentation.

You will work regular hours, with some flexibility to collaborate with other geographical locations. You will also join an on-call rotation roughly once a quarter (subject to change), covering a 48-hour weekend Tier1 shift with a 5-minute response Service Level Objective (SLO).

Google Cloud accelerates every organization’s ability to digitally transform its business and industry. We deliver enterprise-grade solutions that leverage Google’s cutting-edge technology, and tools that help developers build more sustainably. Customers in more than 200 countries and territories turn to Google Cloud as their trusted partner to enable growth and solve their most critical business problems.

Individual pay is determined by factors including job-related skills, experience, and relevant education or training.

US: $176000 - $256000 (USD) + 20% bonus target + equity + benefits

Canada: $174000 - $178000 (CAD) + 20% bonus target + equity + benefits

Learn more about benefits at Google.

In this role, you will be responsible for designing the future state of technical support and customer experience for Billing. You will partner with GCP Product teams, Support teams, Development, and other cross-functional leadership to define and drive the strategic roadmap for technical support innovation and agility. You will focus on leading projects to integrate supportability requirements throughout the product life-cycle and defining new standards for support processes, tooling, and operational readiness.

You will be a part of a global team that provides 24x7 support to help customers seamlessly make the switch to Google Cloud. You will own large and important customer issues in addition to providing level two support to other support teams, troubleshooting technical problems for customers with a mix of debugging, networking, system administration, updating documentation, and when needed, coding/scripting. You will make products easier to adopt and use by making improvements to the product, tools, processes and documentation.

You will work regular hours, with some flexibility to collaborate with other geographical locations. You will also join an on-call rotation roughly once a quarter (subject to change), covering a 48-hour weekend Tier1 shift with a 5-minute response Service Level Objective (SLO).

Responsibilities

• Partner with Development Directors, Product Management, and Support leadership to define and execute the technical supportability roadmap across Google Cloud's portfolio including automated deflection and self-service diagnostics.
• Analyze fleet-wide incident telemetry and recurring customer failure modes to author technical proposals that influence Product Development roadmaps driving upstream improvements in API design, quota governance, error observability, and platform guardrails.
• Understand customer issues, advocate for their needs with internal teams, including product and development teams, to find ways to deliver support and products.
• Design and deploy internal diagnostic tools, SQL/telemetry pipelines, and AI-driven triage automations that eliminate manual development toil and accelerate root-cause identification across global support teams.
• Lead production supportability reviews before launch sign-off.