> AI agents: this is one page of Nextmove’s FDE site, in Markdown. Nextmove is a job board and free career service for forward deployed engineers (FDEs). Each posting is classified from its text, not its title: the kind of work, how much of it is production code, pre-sales weight, time at customer sites, travel, remote arrangement, level and posted base pay. The site also publishes the aggregates: median pay by level, metro, company and kind of work, and which companies started hiring FDEs each week. Every page under https://nextmove.md/fde is served this way; the index of pages is https://nextmove.md/llms.txt. # Forward Deployed Engineering Manager II, Data Cloud, Google Cloud Canonical URL: https://nextmove.md/fde/jobs/800f27a82298228a Google posts a FDE role to lead deployment teams in New York, NY and 2 more, at $262,000–$364,000 base, above the senior FDE median of $190,000 across 1,849 postings with pay. Leads a forward deployed engineering team taking customer data and machine learning workloads from prototype to production across Google Cloud’s Data Cloud services. Read from the employer’s posting on November 6, 2026. - [Google](https://nextmove.md/fde/companies/google) First seen Nov 4, 2026 · open on Google careers as of Nov 6, 2026 **$262,000–$364,000** *annualized* New York, NY +2 Leads a forward deployed engineering team taking customer data and machine learning workloads from prototype to production across Google Cloud’s Data Cloud services. - [See roles that fit me](https://nextmove.md/sign-up?from=%2Ffde%2Fjobs%2F800f27a82298228a&placement=top) - [View posting at Google](https://www.google.com/about/careers/applications/jobs/results/110399922758394566) Free. Upload your resume once, see why each FDE role fits, and get introduced only when you say so. ## At a glance ### Posted base pay $262K–$364K Above the median Midpoint $313K · median $190K This job $262K to $364K. Senior FDE postings, 1,849 postings: the middle 50% of posted pay is $160K to $220K, median $190K. [Compare pay across all Google postings](https://nextmove.md/fde/salary/google) ### The work Leads the deployment team Balance **Mostly pre-sales or support** Project stages 1. Pre-sales 2. Proof of concept (not covered) 3. Implementation 4. Operations (not covered) - **Coding**: Writes production code - **Builds for**: Both - **Level**: Senior - **Role**: People manager ### What they ask for Experience - **8+ years** Cloud computing, technical sales engineering, or software engineering with cloud-native architectures - **2+ years** Managing a software engineering, FDE, or similar technical customer-facing team in a cloud computing environment Background - **Software engineering** - **Solutions and customer engineering** ### Do you meet what the posting states? The posting asks for 2+ years. How many do you have? The posting reads as a senior role. What level are you at now? The job is in New York, NY · Sunnyvale, CA · +1 more. Could you work in one of these? Which of these have you used in production? Answer each one. Nothing is saved or sent. [What postings ask for, by background →](https://nextmove.md/fde/paths) ## Conditions - **Location**: New York, NY · Sunnyvale, CA · San Francisco, CA ## More like this [Snowflake](https://nextmove.md/fde/companies/snowflake) ### [Software Engineering Manager, AI Migrations (Forward Deployed)](https://nextmove.md/fde/jobs/61aaf790de9aa316) Menlo Park, CA 3w ago $236,000–$339,200 [Exa (formerly Metaphor)](https://nextmove.md/fde/companies/exa-formerly-metaphor) ### [FDE Lead, NYC](https://nextmove.md/fde/jobs/646d9e773b63bea2) New York, NY On-site 9d ago $250,000–$315,000 [Scale AI](https://nextmove.md/fde/companies/scale-ai) ### [Frontier Agent Engineering Manager, Enterprise](https://nextmove.md/fde/jobs/d8e8f0dc286de03f) New York, NY 12d ago $252,000–$315,000 - [Other jobs at Google (23)](https://nextmove.md/fde/companies/google) ## The job description from Google ### About the job Google Cloud’s Data Cloud team builds the data platform behind Google’s agentic AI offerings: BigQuery, Managed Spark, borderless Lakehouse, Spanner, AlloyDB and Knowledge Catalog, integrated with Gemini Enterprise. As a Forward Deployed Engineering Manager, you will lead a Forward Deployed Engineering (FDE) team for Google Cloud’s Data Cloud. Your team will bridge the gap between frontier data solutions and production-grade reality for customers. You will take customers’ data and machine learning workloads from prototype to production on BigQuery, Managed Spark, borderless Lakehouse, Spanner, AlloyDB and Knowledge Catalog. You will be a technical leader first: credible with CTOs and data platform leaders, able to review your team’s designs and code, and a strong judge of engineering talent. It's an exciting time to join Google Cloud’s Go-To-Market team, leading the AI revolution for businesses worldwide. You’ll excel by leveraging Google's brand credibility—a legacy built on inventing foundational technologies and proven at scale. We’ll provide you with the world's most advanced AI portfolio, including frontier Gemini models, and the complete Vertex AI platform, helping you to solve business problems. We’re a collaborative culture providing direct access to DeepMind's engineering and research minds, empowering you to solve customer challenges. Join us to be the catalyst for our mission, drive customer success, and define the new cloud era—the market is yours. Individual pay is determined by factors including job-related skills, experience, and relevant education or training. US: $262000 - $364000 (USD) + 25% bonus target + equity + benefits Learn more about benefits at Google. ### Responsibilities - Serve as the technical lead, establishing code standards, architectural best practices, and benchmarks to elevate engineering excellence across the team. - Partner with Sales and Tech Leadership to define requirements for high-value opportunities, deploying specialized experts to key accounts. - Lead technical hiring for FDE, evaluating data engineering expertise, systems engineering, and coding skills to build an exceptional engineering team. - Identify skill gaps in emerging tech (MCP, tool-calling, and foundation models, building agents), ensuring the team maintains subject matter expertise in an evolving data stack. - Collaborate with Product and Engineering to resolve blockers and translate field insights into roadmaps while building internal tools to drive organizational efficiency. ### Qualifications ### Minimum qualifications: - Bachelor’s degree in Engineering, Computer Science, a related field, or equivalent practical experience. - 8 years of experience in cloud computing, technical sales engineering, or software engineering with cloud-native architectures. - 2 years of experience managing a software engineering, FDE, or similar technical customer-facing team in a cloud computing environment. - Experience reviewing designs and code in Python, PySpark and SQL. - Experience designing platforms built on Data Cloud services (e.g., BigQuery, Managed Spark/Lightning Engine, Apache Iceberg (Borderless Lakehouse), Spanner, AlloyDB, Pub/Sub, Dataflow, Kafka). - Experience building agentic AI systems on enterprise data (agents, retrieval, vector search, evaluation). ### Preferred qualifications: - Experience leading forward deployed engineering, field engineering or professional services organizations at a data platform or AI-first company or a hyperscaler’s data and machine learning services team. - Experience engaging credibly with multi-level executives and with engineers. - Experience with Google Cloud data products, or experience participating against them. - Experience across a broad range of Data Cloud specializations, including Data Engineering, Data Science/Machine Learning, Application Development, Operations, and Analytical Databases/Data Management. - Experience building end-to-end data pipelines, engineering features, and training/deploying machine learning models. - Experience with RAG architectures, chunking/indexing strategies, vector databases, hybrid search, and the use of data governance for grounding agents in enterprise context. [View posting at Google](https://www.google.com/about/careers/applications/jobs/results/110399922758394566) ## About Google Builds global consumer, ads, cloud, developer and AI platforms spanning Search, YouTube, Android, Workspace and Gemini. 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