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Google · 3 days ago

Senior Software Engineer, Cloud Dataproc, Open Source

Sunnyvale, CA

Full-time

Hybrid

Senior Level

$166K/yr - $244K/yr

5+ years exp

Google is a leading technology company that develops next-generation technologies for billions of users. They are seeking a Senior Software Engineer to work on critical projects related to Cloud Dataproc, enhancing performance and reliability of open-source big data analytics tools in the cloud.

AppsArtificial Intelligence (AI)Cloud StorageSearch EngineSEO

Growth Opportunities

H1B Sponsor Likely

Responsibilities

Build customer-facing features which make Cloud Dataproc the best place to run Hadoop and Spark in the cloud

Drive technical design and execution for differentiated Performance and LakeHouse features and enhancements in an ambiguous problem space

Enhance Apache Spark for performance, reliability, security, and monitoring, and simultaneously enhance Lake House technologies like Iceberg, Hudi, or Delta Lake for performance, security, and monitoring

Contribute to and adapt existing documentation or educational content based on product and program updates, as well as user feedback, while also extending open-source technologies like Apache Spark, Hive, and Trino to improve their debuggability, observability, and supportability

Review code developed by other developers and provide feedback to ensure best practices (e.g., style guidelines, checking code in, accuracy, testability, and efficiency)

Qualification

Apache SparkOpen-SourcePerformance optimizationHiveDistributed systemsData analysisVisualization toolsDebuggingTeam collaboration

Required

Bachelor's degree or equivalent practical experience

5 years of experience designing, analyzing and troubleshooting large-scale distributed systems

3 years of experience with performance optimization, systems data analysis, visualization tools, or debugging

Experience developing with Spark, Hive, or with similar processing frameworks

Experience with Open-Source

Preferred

Master's degree or PhD in Computer Science or related technical field

Experience developing frameworks such as Apache Spark, Trino, or Flink

Knowledge of open-source big-data performance optimization problems

Ability to work across boundaries in a distributed team

Benefits

Bonus

Equity

Benefits

Company

Google

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Google specializes in internet-related services and products, including search, advertising, and software. It is a sub-organization of Alphabet.

Founded in 1998

Mountain View, California, USA

10001+ employees

https://www.google.com

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Funding

Current Stage

Public Company

Total Funding

$26.1M

Key Investors

Andy Bechtolsheim

2004-08-19IPO

1999-06-07Series Unknown· $25M

1998-11-01Angel· $1M

Leadership Team

Sundar Pichai

CEO

Thomas Kurian

CEO - Google Cloud

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