Senior Software Engineer, BigQuery Search

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Google Kirkland, WA, USA

X In accordance with Washington state law, we are highlighting our comprehensive benefits package, which is available to all eligible US based employees. Benefits for this role include:

• 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

In most instances, this position requires in-person interviews as part of the hiring process.

• 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 or storage.
• Experience programming in C++ and Java.
• Experience with SQL and large-scale distributed systems.

• Master's degree or PhD in Computer Science or related technical field.
• Experience building a query processing engine for a SQL RDBMS.
• Experience building transaction processing systems (OLTP) or larger scale analytics (OLAP).
• Experience in one or more of the following:
  Search Infrastructure, Data Analytics, Database Internals, Machine Learning.
• High availability designs, parallel/horizontal scale-out database architectures.
• Passion for delighting enterprise customers, and an excellent understanding of enterprise workloads.

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 handle information at 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.

Big Query Search provides high-performance search and analytics for structured and semi-structured data at petabyte scale, with a primary focus on powering mission-critical security log analysis and observability workloads. Traditional real-time search solutions often struggle to scale effectively;
Big Query Search addresses these challenges by offering a managed indexing subsystem integrated directly within Big Query.
We are deeply committed to making search on Big Query data more performant and cost-effective through continuous architectural innovation. Our engineering efforts focus on optimizing indexing freshness and reducing operational costs by aligning indexing with base table storage optimizations. These advancements result in massive reductions in slot usage and scanned data, enabling customers to run high-concurrency investigations with industry-leading…