Staff Software Engineer – BigQuery Runtime

Google; Kirkland (WA); On-site; USD 207,000 - 300,000; Full time

Job summary

Google is seeking software engineers to work on BigQuery, a fast, serverless data warehouse. You will tackle low-latency queries, scale, and contribute across full‑stack development while exploring AI, networking, and data storage.

The role offers opportunities to switch teams as the company grows and evolves. You will provide technical leadership on projects, design, develop, test, deploy, and maintain large-scale software, and contribute to improving query performance in a dynamic,

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 experience building and developing large-scale infrastructure, distributed systems or networks, or experience with compute technologies, storage, or hardware architecture.
• 5 years of coding experience 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 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 data planes and Python for tests.

Skills

Java

C/C++

Python

Testing

Large-scale infrastructure

Software design

C

Education

Bachelor's degree or equivalent practical experience

Master’s degree or PhD in Engineering/CS or related field

Tools

SQL

Job description

Google is seeking software engineers to work on BigQuery, a fast, serverless data warehouse. You will tackle low-latency queries, scale, and contribute across full‑stack development while exploring AI, networking, and data storage.

The role offers opportunities to switch teams as the company grows and evolves. You will provide technical leadership on projects, design, develop, test, deploy, and maintain large-scale software, and contribute to improving query performance in a dynamic,