- Company: Google, Inc.
- Location: Reston, Fairfax County
- Full Time
- Reston, Fairfax County
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google.com- Founded 1998
- Employees 47756
- Ticker GOOG
- Revenue (FY2025) $402.84B
- Net income $132.17B
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60,684 employees covered under a retirement plan (2017 filing) — via DOL Form 5500 / EFAST2
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OSHA safety record: 2 confirmed violations across 1 inspection — via OSHA Establishment Search
Google (Alphabet, GOOG) is a U.S. tech company founded in 1998, known for search, ads, cloud, software, and AI. Public filings cite roughly 47,756 employees. This role sits in Google Public Sector, supporting federal security customers.
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Join Google, Inc. in Reston, Fairfax County as a Customer Engineer III, Federal Security with Google Public Sector — a mission-driven role where deep security expertise meets the unique demands of federal customers. This full-time, on-site position requires an active or eligible security clearance and U.S. citizenship.
About the Role
As a Customer Engineer III on the Federal Security team within Google Public Sector, you will serve as the technical bridge between Google Cloud's security capabilities and the agencies that depend on them. Working on-site in Reston, Fairfax County, you'll translate complex security requirements into practical, compliant cloud solutions for federal organizations. Because this position may involve access to classified information, you must be a U.S. citizen to satisfy customer and compliance requirements.
Key Responsibilities
- Partner with federal customers to understand their security objectives and design solutions that meet government compliance standards.
- Provide technical guidance throughout the sales and adoption lifecycle, demonstrating how Google Cloud security services address agency needs.
- Lead architecture discussions, proofs of concept, and hands-on demonstrations tailored to public sector environments.
- Collaborate across sales, engineering, and product teams to remove technical barriers and accelerate customer success.
- Act as a trusted advisor on secure cloud adoption, helping agencies modernize while maintaining rigorous security postures.
Qualifications
- U.S. citizenship is mandatory to meet customer and compliance obligations, including potential access to classified information.
- An active or eligible security clearance suited to federal engagements.
- Demonstrated experience in customer-facing technical roles, ideally within cloud security or the public sector.
- Strong communication skills, with the ability to convey sophisticated security concepts to both technical and non-technical stakeholders.
- Willingness to work on-site in Reston, Fairfax County.
About Google, Inc.
Google Public Sector is dedicated to bringing the company's technology and security innovations to government agencies. As a Customer Engineer III in Reston, Fairfax County, you'll join a team focused on advancing the mission of federal customers through secure, scalable cloud solutions.
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The job is on-site in Reston, Fairfax County, Virginia. Virginia sits in the Mid-Atlantic, near the D.C. federal market—relevant for public-sector security work.
Virginia, officially the Commonwealth of Virginia, is a state in the Southeastern and Mid-Atlantic regions of the United States between the Atlantic Coast and the Appalachian Mountains. It borders Kentucky to the west, Tennessee to the south-west, North Carolina to the south, West Virginia to the north-west, and Maryland to the north. The state's capital is Richmond and its most populous city is V
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National unemployment rate in US: 4.2% — via World Bank
Private-sector wage growth (year over year): 3.3% — via FRED
National quits rate: 1.9% — via FRED (BLS JOLTS)
Weekly initial unemployment claims: 215,000 — via FRED
GDP per capita in US: $90,027 — via World Bank
Consumer price inflation in US: 2.9% (annual) — via World Bank
Real GDP growth in US: 2.2% (annual) — via World Bank
Average hours worked per year in US: 1,800 — via OECD
Home prices in Virginia (year over year): +3.8% — via FRED
Median household income in Fairfax County: $132,774 — via US Census ACS / Data USA
Most recent FEMA-declared disaster in Fairfax County: Severe Winter Storm (Winter Storm), Jan 2026 — via FEMA
Average commute time in Fairfax County: 28 min — via US Census ACS / Data USA
Most common commute in Fairfax County: Drove Alone (53%) — via US Census ACS / Data USA
Households with home internet in Fairfax County: 97% — via US Census ACS / Data USA
Nearby history: Bowman, A. Smith, Distillery, listed 1999 (742m away) — via National Register of Historic Places
Typical climate: average high 64°F / low 48°F year-round (summers around 83°F, winters around 29°F) — via NOAA 1991-2020 Normals
Walkability: Above average walkable (15.0/20) — via EPA National Walkability Index
Typical rent nearby: $2,015/mo (1BR) · $2,246/mo (2BR) — via HUD Fair Market Rents
- Elevation 114m (374 ft)
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Build the skills for this role
Prioritize federal security and cloud fluency, cleared-customer engagement, and solution storytelling. No certification list or costs were provided in CERTS data—skip paid certs until a real requirement is named.
Be ready to walk through past public-sector or security engagements, explain threat/compliance tradeoffs simply, white-board a secure cloud pattern, and show how you unstick complex multi-stakeholder technical sales. Expect clearance and customer-facing scenario questions.
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Strong fit if you enjoy technical pre-sales for government security buyers, can hold a room with engineers and program leads, and want Google-scale cloud/security solutions in the Reston federal corridor—not a pure research or pure ops desk job.
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- Role Customer Engineer III, Federal Security, Google Public Sector with Security Clearance
- Employer Google, Inc.
- Location Reston, Fairfax County
- Type Full Time
- Posted June 23, 2026
- Apply by 2026-07-27
- Country context US
- Overview Full original description on this page (378 words; rewritten for clarity, not a teaser paste)
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- Hacker News — The Web We Have to Save
- Hacker News — Google to France: We Won't Forget It for You Wholesale
- Hacker News — Google to France: We Won't Forget It for You Wholesale
- Hacker News — Why I Don’t Write for Medium
- Hacker News — Google’s copying of the Java SE API was fair use [pdf]
- Hacker News — Google Search Is Dying
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