Staff Software Engineer, BigQuery Runtime

Google•Kirkland, WA

1d•$207,000 - $300,000

About The Position

Google software engineers develop technologies used by billions of people and build products that operate at massive scale. In this role, you will work on projects important to Google, with opportunities to move between teams and projects as business needs evolve. The role calls for versatility, leadership, and enthusiasm for tackling new problems across the technology stack. Google BigQuery is a fast, serverless, highly scalable, multi-cloud data warehouse within Google Cloud Platform. It supports analytics use cases such as reporting, business intelligence, data pipelines, and data marts across a range of enterprise sectors. The team’s mission is to make BigQuery the best data warehouse for low-latency, high-throughput use cases, particularly by improving performance for queries on small datasets. You will provide technical leadership and design, develop, test, deploy, maintain, and enhance large-scale software solutions. You will improve the BigQuery engine to remove bottlenecks for low-latency queries and design solutions that are easy to maintain and extend. The work involves the BigQuery and Dremel codebase, primarily C++, with some Java in data planes and Python for tests.

Requirements

Bachelor's degree or equivalent practical experience.
At least 8 years of experience with one or more general-purpose programming languages, including but not limited to Java, C/C++, or Python.
At least 5 years of experience building and developing large-scale infrastructure, distributed systems or networks, or experience with compute technologies, storage, or hardware architecture.
At least 5 years of coding experience in one or more of the following languages: C, C++, Java, or Python.
At least 5 years of experience testing and launching software products.
At least 3 years of experience with software design and architecture.

Nice To Haves

Master’s degree or PhD in Engineering, Computer Science, or a related technical field.
At least 8 years of experience with data structures and algorithms.
At least 3 years of experience in a technical leadership role leading project teams and setting technical direction.
At least 3 years of experience working in a complex, matrixed organization involving cross-functional or cross-business projects.
Experience developing query processing engines for a SQL relational database or large-scale distributed systems.

Responsibilities

Provide technical leadership on projects.
Design, develop, test, deploy, maintain, and enhance large-scale software solutions.
Improve the BigQuery engine to remove bottlenecks for low-latency queries and design solutions that are easy to maintain and extend.
Work with the BigQuery and Dremel codebase, primarily C++, with some Java in data planes and Python for tests.