Google · 9 hours ago
Senior Software Engineer, Core Runtime, BigQuery
Kirkland, WA
Full-time
Onsite
Senior Level
$166K/yr - $244K/yr
5+ years expGoogle is a leading technology company that develops next-generation technologies for billions of users. The Senior Software Engineer will work on optimizing the BigQuery engine for low latency queries and collaborate with various teams to enhance engineering excellence.
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Responsibilities
Improve BigQuery engine to remove bottlenecks for low latency queries, design solutions that are easy to maintain and extend
Conduct tests and monitoring systems to ensure quality
Work with other BigQuery teams to reduce overhead and remove bottlenecks
Work with BigQuery and Dremel codebase, which is primarily C++ with some Java in data planes and Python for tests
Improve engineering excellence across the stack
Qualification
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 testing, maintaining, or launching software products, and 1 year of experience with software design and architecture
3 years of experience with developing large-scale infrastructure, distributed systems or networks, or experience with compute technologies, storage or hardware architecture
Experience in the following: database internals, query processing, performance analysis, SQL
Experience programming in C++
Preferred
Master's degree or PhD in Computer Science or a related technical field
Experience with vectorized query runtimes, low-level systems implementation, performance analysis and optimization, and engineering for scalability, high performance, large-scale distributed systems
Experience in the following: influencing, collaboration, concurrency multithreading synchronization, distributed computing, distributed databases
Experience with database query runtimes
Experience working on performance improvement projects spanning multiple functional areas
Experience building infrastructure in Google Cloud or other cloud providers
Benefits
Health, dental, vision, life, disability insurance
Retirement Benefits: 401(k) with company match
Paid Time Off: 20 days of vacation per year, accruing at a rate of 6.15 hours per pay period for the first five years of employment
Sick Time: 40 hours/year (statutory, where applicable); 5 days/event (discretionary)
Maternity Leave (Short-Term Disability + Baby Bonding): 28-30 weeks
Baby Bonding Leave: 18 weeks
Holidays: 13 paid days per year
Company
Google specializes in internet-related services and products, including search, advertising, and software. It is a sub-organization of Alphabet.
10001+ employees
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Funding
Current Stage
Public CompanyTotal Funding
$26.1MKey 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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