Senior BigQuery Processing Engineer — GPU-Accelerated

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

Job summary

Google is seeking a software engineer to contribute to the BigQuery data warehouse, focusing on high-performance C++ code and scalable infrastructure. You will work on low-latency, high-throughput query processing, collaborating across teams and technologies in a fast-paced environment.

The role involves designing, implementing, testing, and optimizing components, with opportunities to switch projects as Google grows and evolves.

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 (e.g., style guidelines, checking code in, accuracy, testability, and efficiency).
• 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

5 years experience

C++

Database internals

Query processing

software design & architecture

distributed systems

Education

Bachelor's degree

Equivalent practical experience

Master's degree (Preferred)

Tools

Java

Python

Job description

Google is seeking a software engineer to contribute to the BigQuery data warehouse, focusing on high-performance C++ code and scalable infrastructure. You will work on low-latency, high-throughput query processing, collaborating across teams and technologies in a fast-paced environment.

The role involves designing, implementing, testing, and optimizing components, with opportunities to switch projects as Google grows and evolves.