Distinguished Engineer, BigQuery

Google LLC; Kirkland, Sunnyvale (WA, CA); On-site; USD 364,000 - 505,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

40% bonus target

Equity

Benefits package

Job summary

Google LLC in Kirkland, WA is seeking a Distinguished Engineer for the BigQuery team to guide the long-term technical strategy and align internal development with cloud ecosystem goals.

You will oversee multiple engineering projects across sites, provide domain expertise, and drive storage and query system innovations while collaborating with product management to steer direction.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, similar technical field of study, or equivalent practical experience.
• 15 years of engineering experience with emphasis on technical innovation.
• 10 years of database experience with data processing engines and systems.

Responsibilities

• Oversee and steer all engineering projects across multiple locations to deliver a data warehouse in BigQuery.
• Provide domain expertise to guide early designs and accelerate decision making.
• Drive improvements in storage and query systems to enable next leaps in analytics.
• Partner with engineering and product management to drive product direction and travel to work with teams as needed.

Skills

SQL-based transaction processing

OLAP analytics

High availability designs

Cloud services

Cross-functional leadership

Roadmap & alignment

Enterprise workloads

Strategic communications

Education

Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or equivalent

Job description

In accordance with Washington state law, we are highlighting our comprehensive benefits package, which is available to all eligible US based employees. Benefits for this role include:

• Health, dental, vision, life, disability insurance
• Retirement Benefits: 401(k) with company match
• Paid Time Off: 20 days of vacation per year, accruing at a rate of 6.15 hours per pay period for the first five years of employment
• Sick Time: 40 hours/year (increased to 69 hours/year for Seattle) including 5 discretionary sick days per instance
• Maternity Leave (Short-Term Disability + Baby Bonding): 28-30 weeks
• Baby Bonding Leave: 18 weeks
• Holidays: 13 paid days per year

Note: By applying to this position you will have an opportunity to share your preferred working location from the following: Kirkland, WA, USA; Sunnyvale, CA, USA.

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, similar technical field of study, or equivalent practical experience.
• 15 years of experience in engineering with experience in technical innovation.
• 10 years of database experience with data processing engines and systems.

Preferred qualifications:

• Experience building SQL based transaction processing systems (e.g. OLTP) or larger scale analytics (e.g. OLAP).
• Experience with high availability designs, parallel/horizontal scale-out database architectures, and cloud services.
• Experience promoting product excellence and collaboration, driving a portfolio of concurrent engineering projects ranging from short-term critical feature launches to long-term research initiatives.
• Experience motivating others to act by creating a shared sense of outlook or purpose, creating a compelling roadmap for the future, and communicating clearly, with a collaborative leadership approach.
• Passionate about delighting enterprise customers, and an excellent understanding of enterprise workloads.

About the job

BigQuery is Google's serverless data warehousing and analytics system for large and critical analytical workloads. BigQuery has pioneered the serverless query execution model among cloud datawarehouses and continues to innovate to bring insights to massive datasets as fast as possible.

We're building the next generation of analytics, adding a rich set of features into the BigQuery engine, and inventing new ways to make the BigQuery engine to scale to large data volumes at lowest latency to meet the demanding customer scenarios.

This role encompasses a broad range of scenarios involving storage, data lakes, query processing, advanced analytics, ML, and much more. You will bring expereienced database product sensibility to help align our internal development with Cloud ecosystem compatibility aspirations.

As the Distinguished Engineer, you will be leading the technical long-term strategy for our team and working closely with our engineers to see it through, while setting high technical excellence in everything we do.

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: $364000 - $505000 (USD) + 40% bonus target + equity + benefits

Learn more about benefits at Google .

• Oversee and steer all the engineering projects in multiple locations as well as drive cross-functional engineering decisions across the BigQuery sites to deliver a data warehouse in BigQuery.
• Provide domain expertise and engineering insight to guide early designs, accelerate project decision making and maintain close oversight of technical execution and proactively adjusting course where necessary.
• Drive the improvements needed in the storage and query systems, including fundamental rethinking and rearchitecting of several aspects to build the next leap of innovation in analytics.
• Partner with engineering and product management teams to drive product direction. Travel to work with engineering teams and broader leadership both within BigQuery and broadly across Google.

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Google is a global company and, in order to facilitate efficient collaboration and communication globally, English proficiency is a requirement for all roles unless stated otherwise in the job posting.

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