Staff Engineer, High-Throughput BigQuery Storage & Streaming

Socket.dev; Seattle (WA); On-site; USD 207,000 - 300,000; Full time

Job summary

Google's BigQuery team is seeking a software engineer to design and land large-scale storage components for OSS and BigQuery, enabling fast data analytics at scale across enterprise customers.

You will design tests, employ a full toolkit to develop and rollout features, and collaborate with product managers, engineers, and customers to shape the architecture and technical direction in a fast-moving, cross-functional environment.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree or equivalent practical experience.
• 8 years of experience building and developing large-scale infrastructure, distributed systems or networks, or experience with compute technologies, storage, or hardware architecture.
• 5 years of experience in the Data Analytics ecosystem (e.g., Iceberg, Spark, Flink, Pandas, Arrow).
• Master’s degree or PhD in Engineering, Computer Science, or a related technical field.
• 10 years of experience building and developing large-scale infrastructure, distributed systems or networks, or experience with compute technologies, storage, or hardware architecture.
• 8 years of experience with data structures and algorithms.
• 3 years of experience in a technical leadership role leading project teams and setting technical direction.
• 3 years of experience working in a complex, matrixed organization involving cross-functional, or cross-business projects.

Responsibilities

• Design and implement storage components to support large-scale data processing for both open source software (OSS) and BigQuery.
• Design and implement tests and experiments to evaluate and monitor the performance of the system.
• Use the full battery of tools and instrumentation to develop, test, and rollout features.
• Coordinate with product engineers, Product Managers and customers to grow the business.

Skills

Large-scale infra

Distributed systems

Data analytics ecosystem

Technical leadership

Education

Bachelor's degree or equivalent

Master's degree or PhD

Tools

Apache Iceberg

Apache Delta

Spark

Flink

Pandas

Arrow

Job description

Google's BigQuery team is seeking a software engineer to design and land large-scale storage components for OSS and BigQuery, enabling fast data analytics at scale across enterprise customers.

You will design tests, employ a full toolkit to develop and rollout features, and collaborate with product managers, engineers, and customers to shape the architecture and technical direction in a fast-moving, cross-functional environment.