Staff Engineer, BigQuery Runtime — Low-Latency Engine

Google Inc.; Kirkland (WA); On-site; USD 207,000 - 300,000; 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 (vacation) 20 days/year

Sick time 40 hours/year (Seattle 69)

Maternity leave 28-30 weeks

Baby bonding leave 18 weeks

13 paid holidays

Job summary

Google Kirkland, WA, USA seeks a Staff Software Engineer for BigQuery Runtime to own outcomes, solve ambiguous problems, and influence stakeholders. Role spans design, development, testing, and deployment of high-scale data warehousing software in a fast-paced team environment.

BigQuery is a fast, serverless data warehouse; candidates should have 8+ years in programming and distributed systems, with strong C++, Java, or Python skills and a passion for scalable infrastructure.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree or equivalent practical experience.
• 8 years of experience with one or more general purpose programming languages including Java, C/C++ or Python.
• 5 years of experience testing and launching software products.
• 5 years of building and developing large-scale infrastructure, distributed systems, or compute/storage/hardware knowledge.
• 5 years of coding in C, C++, Java, or Python.
• 3 years of experience with software design and architecture.

Responsibilities

• Provide technical leadership on projects.
• Design, develop, test, deploy, maintain, and enhance large-scale software solutions.
• Improve BigQuery engine to reduce latency and bottlenecks while keeping maintainable design.
• Collaborate on the BigQuery and Dremel codebase, primarily C++ with some Java and Python in data paths.

Skills

Java

C/C++

Python

Software testing

Large-scale infra

Distributed systems

Software design

Education

Bachelor's degree or equivalent practical experience

Master’s or PhD in Engineering/CS

Job description

Google Kirkland, WA, USA seeks a Staff Software Engineer for BigQuery Runtime to own outcomes, solve ambiguous problems, and influence stakeholders. Role spans design, development, testing, and deployment of high-scale data warehousing software in a fast-paced team environment.

BigQuery is a fast, serverless data warehouse; candidates should have 8+ years in programming and distributed systems, with strong C++, Java, or Python skills and a passion for scalable infrastructure.