Senior Software Engineer, BigQuery Platform Infrastructure

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 (increased to 69 hours/year for Seattle) including 5 discretionary sick days per instance
• 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 (e.g., Java or C++), and with data structures/algorithms.
• 3 years of experience testing, maintaining, or launching software products.
• 3 years of experience in building and developing infrastructure or distributed systems.
• 1 year of experience with software design and architecture.
• 1 year of experience in a technical leadership role.

• Master's degree or PhD in Computer Science or a related technical field.
• Experience with distributed, multi-tenant systems (e.g., cloud services/runtimes).
• Experience in deploying security isolation technologies (e.g., memory safe languages like Rust, Micro
  
  VMs).
• Experience with Kubernetes.

Google Cloud's software engineers develop core technologies that support billions of users. In this role, you will design and develop secure multi‑tenant infrastructure, providing strong isolation and resource governance guarantees.

• Write and test product or system development code.
• Guide design reviews with peers and stakeholders to select among available technologies.
• Review code developed by other developers and provide feedback to ensure best practices (e.g., style guidelines, checking code in, accuracy, testability, and efficiency).
• Contribute to existing documentation or educational content and adapt content based on product/program updates and user feedback.
• Triage product or system issues and debug/track/resolve by analyzing the sources of issues.

The US base salary range for this full‑time position is $174,000–$252,000 + bonus + equity + benefits.

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