Software Engineer, Core Runtime, BigQuery

Google Inc.; Kirkland (WA); On-site; USD 147,000 - 210,000; 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 20 days per year

Sick time 40 hours/year (Seattle 69)

Maternity leave 28-30 weeks

Baby bonding leave 18 weeks

13 paid holidays

Job summary

Google is seeking a Software Engineer for the Core Runtime team in Kirkland, WA. You will write product and system development code for BigQuery-scale components, focusing on performance, reliability, and scalability.

The role requires strong C++ skills and hands-on experience with large distributed systems, databases internals, and SQL. You will review code, participate in design reviews, and contribute to documentation while collaborating across teams in a fast-paced environment.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree or equivalent practical experience.
• 2 years of software development or 1 year with advanced degree.
• 2 years of experience with large-scale infrastructure, distributed systems, or networks.
• Experience in database internals, query processing, performance analysis, SQL.
• Experience programming in C++.

Responsibilities

• Write product or system development code.
• Participate in design reviews with peers and stakeholders.
• Review code for best practices and quality.
• Contribute to existing documentation and adapt content based on updates.
• Triage product or system issues and debug/resolve impacting hardware, network, or services.

Skills

C++

Distributed systems

SQL

Performance analysis

Education

Bachelor's degree

Master's degree or PhD (preferred)

Job description

Software Engineer, Core Runtime, BigQuery

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Kirkland, WA, USA

Benefits

• 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

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree or equivalent practical experience.
• 2 years of experience with software development or 1 year of experience with an advanced degree in an industry setting.
• 2 years of experience with developing large-scale infrastructure, distributed systems or networks, or experience with compute technologies or storage.
• Experience in the following: database internals, query processing, performance analysis, SQL.
• Experience programming in C++.

Preferred qualifications:

• Master's degree or PhD in Computer Science or related technical fields.
• Experience with vectorized query runtimes, low-level systems implementation, performance analysis and optimization, and engineering for scalability, high performance, large-scale distributed systems.
• Experience in the following: influencing, collaboration, concurrency multithreading synchronization, distributed computing, distributed databases.
• Experience with database query runtimes.
• Experience working on performance improvement projects spanning multiple functional areas.
• Experience building infrastructure in Google Cloud or other cloud providers.

About the job

Google's software engineers develop the next-generation technologies that change how billions of users connect, explore, and interact with information and one another. Our products need to handle information at massive scale, and extend well beyond web search. We're looking for engineers who bring fresh ideas from all areas, including information retrieval, distributed computing, large-scale system design, networking and data storage, security, artificial intelligence, natural language processing, UI design and mobile; the list goes on and is growing every day. As a software engineer, you will work on a specific project critical to Google’s needs with opportunities to switch teams and projects as you and our fast-paced business grow and evolve. We need our engineers to be versatile, display leadership qualities and be enthusiastic to take on new problems across the full-stack as we continue to push technology forward.

BigQuery is an industry leader in data warehousing. We learned in recent years that most workloads run against small datasets, inspiring our goal to make the platform premier for low-latency, high-throughput use cases. Over that time, we built enhancements to address these issues. Testing proved that lightweight evaluations on standard benchmarks can execute an order of magnitude faster by eliminating overhead and streamlining processing. Consequently, half of all investigative jobs could perform over 50% quicker, closing a major engaged gap. Join if you enjoy tuning large distributed architectures, accelerating response times, and maximizing operational efficiency.

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: $147000 - $210000 (USD) + 15% bonus target + equity + benefits

Write 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).
• Contribute to existing documentation or educational content and adapt content based on product/program updates and user feedback.
• Triage product or system issues and debug/track/resolve by analyzing the sources of issues and the impact on hardware, network, or service operations and quality.

Google is proud to be an equal opportunity and affirmative action employer. We are committed to building a workforce that is representative of the users we serve, creating a culture of belonging, and providing an equal employment opportunity regardless of race, creed, color, religion, gender, sexual orientation, gender identity/expression, national origin, disability, age, genetic information, veteran status, marital status, pregnancy or related condition (including breastfeeding), expecting or parents-to-be, criminal histories consistent with legal requirements, or any other basis protected by law. See also Google's EEO Policy , Know your rights: workplace discrimination is illegal , Belonging at Google , and How we hire .

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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