Senior Software Engineer, Core Runtime, BigQuery

Overview

Senior Software Engineer, Core Runtime, Big Query — Google

Location:

Kirkland, WA, USA

• 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

• 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++.

• 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.

Google's software engineers develop the next-generation technologies that change how billions of users connect, explore, and interact with information and one another. Our products need to manage information at a massive scale, and extend well beyond web search. We're looking for engineers who bring fresh ideas from all areas, including information retrieval, distributed computing, large-scale system design, networking and data storage, security, artificial intelligence, natural language processing, UI design and mobile;

the list goes on and is growing every day. As a software engineer, you will work on a specific project critical to Google’s needs with opportunities to switch teams and projects as you and our fast-paced business grow and evolve. We need our engineers to be versatile, display leadership qualities and be enthusiastic to take on new problems across the full-stack as we continue to push technology forward.

• Improve Big Query 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 Big Query teams to reduce overhead and remove bottlenecks.
• Work with Big Query and Dremel codebase, which is primarily C++ with some Java in data planes and Python for tests.
• Improve engineering excellence across the stack.

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