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Google · 5 days ago

Senior Software Engineer, BigQuery Metadata

Kirkland, WA, USA

Full-time

Hybrid

Senior Level

$166K/yr - $244K/yr

5+ years exp

Google is seeking a Senior Software Engineer for the BigQuery Metadata team, which focuses on providing scalable and high-performance metadata services for BigQuery operations. The role involves designing algorithms and implementing tests to enhance system performance and efficiency.

AppsArtificial Intelligence (AI)Cloud StorageSearch EngineSEO

Growth Opportunities

H1B Sponsor Likely

Responsibilities

Design and implement algorithms to automatically update the physical shape of stored data, taking into account system efficiency, scale, and user query performance

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 in all parts of the software stack

Qualification

Software developmentDistributed systemsCloud infrastructureSQLData AnalyticsC++JavaBachelor’s degreeMaster's degreePhDEngaging enterprise customers

Required

Bachelor's degree or equivalent practical experience

5 years of experience with software development in one or more programming languages

3 years of experience with developing large-scale infrastructure, distributed systems or networks, or with compute technologies, storage or hardware architecture

Experience in the following areas: Storage Systems, Databases, SQL, Data Analytics

Preferred

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

Experience building infrastructure in Google Cloud or other Cloud providers

Experience with high-performance scalable storage and distributed systems back-ends

Experience building or operating large-scale database or data warehouse systems

Experience in engaging enterprise customers, with an understanding of enterprise workloads

Experience with C++ and Java

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

H1B Sponsorship

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Trends of Total Sponsorships

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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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