Senior BigQuery Engineer - Multimodal Storage & Lakehouse

Google LLC; Kirkland (WA); On-site; USD 174,000 - 252,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health insurance

Dental insurance

Vision insurance

Life insurance

Disability insurance

401(k) with company match

Paid time off

Sick time

Job summary

Google LLC is seeking a software engineer in Kirkland, WA to help build and optimize large-scale data systems within BigQuery and Google Cloud. You will design, implement, and review code for high-performance data processing, and contribute to AI/ML data pipelines and GPU-accelerated workloads.

The role emphasizes distributed systems, database internals, and scalable infrastructure, with opportunities to work across the full stack and collaborate with multiple teams.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree or equivalent practical experience.
• 5 years of experience with software development in C++/Rust.
• 3 years of experience with developing large-scale infrastructure, distributed systems or networks, or experience with compute technologies, storage or hardware architecture.
• Experience with distributed computing, distributed databases, and distributed systems.
• Experience in designing and developing relational databases, database internals, query processing and query optimization.

Responsibilities

• Write and test product or system development code.
• Participate in, or lead design reviews with peers and stakeholders to decide amongst available technologies.
• Review code developed by other developers and provide feedback to ensure best practices (e.g., style guidelines, checking code in, accuracy, testability, and efficiency).
• Develop advanced data table features supporting streaming, efficient updates, and open-source engine integration and engineer high-performance data loaders for AI/ML frameworks to accelerate and optimize GPU training pipelines.
• Build and optimize Vortex read/write paths in BigQuery (C++/Rust), pushing filters and projections directly onto compressed encodings.

Skills

C++/Rust

Distributed systems

Databases

BigQuery

AI/ML data pipelines

Education

Bachelor's degree or equivalent practical experience

Master's degree or PhD in CS or related field

Tools

BigQuery

PyTorch/JAX data loaders

GPU programming

Job description

Google LLC is seeking a software engineer in Kirkland, WA to help build and optimize large-scale data systems within BigQuery and Google Cloud. You will design, implement, and review code for high-performance data processing, and contribute to AI/ML data pipelines and GPU-accelerated workloads.

The role emphasizes distributed systems, database internals, and scalable infrastructure, with opportunities to work across the full stack and collaborate with multiple teams.