Senior BigQuery Processing Core Runtime Engineer

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

Benefits offered by this job

Health insurance

401(k) with company match

Paid time off

Sick time

Maternity leave

Holiday pay

Job summary

Google LLC in Kirkland, WA is seeking a Senior Software Engineer for the BigQuery Processing Core Runtime. You will design, develop, test, deploy, maintain, and optimize large-scale software that powers our data warehouse.

The role emphasizes C++ and database internals, with opportunities to work across BigQuery and Dremel codebases. You will help improve latency and throughput while contributing to system architecture and performance engineering.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree or equivalent practical experience.
• 5 years of experience with software development in one or more programming languages.
• 3 years of experience testing, maintaining, or launching software products, and 1 year of experience with software design and architecture.
• 3 years of experience with building and developing large-scale infrastructure, distributed systems or networks, or experience with compute technologies, storage, or hardware architecture.
• Experience programming in C++.
• Experience with Database Internals and Query Processing.

Responsibilities

• Write and test product or system development code.
• Review code developed by other developers and provide feedback to ensure best practices.
• Design, develop, test, deploy, maintain, and enhance large-scale software solutions.
• Improve BigQuery engine to remove bottlenecks for low latency queries, design solutions that are easy to maintain and extend.
• Work with BigQuery and Dremel codebase, which is primarily C++ with some Java in control planes and Python for tests.

Skills

Software development

Testing & launch

Large-scale infra

C++

Database internals

Query processing

Education

Bachelor's degree or equivalent practical experience

Job description

Google LLC in Kirkland, WA is seeking a Senior Software Engineer for the BigQuery Processing Core Runtime. You will design, develop, test, deploy, maintain, and optimize large-scale software that powers our data warehouse.

The role emphasizes C++ and database internals, with opportunities to work across BigQuery and Dremel codebases. You will help improve latency and throughput while contributing to system architecture and performance engineering.