Software Engineer, BigQuery, Query Processing Core Runtime

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

Minimum qualifications:

• Bachelor’s degree in Electronics or Computer Engineering emphasis on computer architecture and performance analysis or equivalent practical experience.
• 8 years of experience with software development in one or more programming languages (e.g., Python, C, C++, Java, JavaScript).
• Experience designing and developing relational and distributed databases, database internals, transactional systems, query processing, and query optimization.

Preferred qualifications

• Experience architecting and developing software or infrastructure for scalable, high performance, distributed systems.
• Experience with distributed, columnar or analytic oriented databases or distributed data processing frameworks.
• Deep understanding of multithreading, concurrency, and asynchronous programming.

About The Job

Google Cloud's software engineers develop the next-generation technologies that change how billions of users connect, explore, and interact with information and one another. 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 Cloud's needs with opportunities to switch teams and projects as you and our fast-paced business grow and evolve. You will anticipate our customer needs and be empowered to act like an owner, take action and innovate. 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.

BigQuery is one of the leaders in the data warehousing space. As we learned in recent years, most of the queries users run are working on small datasets. The trend is so profound that some ex-BigQuery leaders even start new businesses to solve that exact use case (e.g.big data is dead). Our mission is to make BigQuery the best solution for those workloads.

In this role, you will build optimizations to solve parts of this problem, that small queries on industry benchmarks can execute an order of magnitude faster if we cut overhead and optimize execution, as a result, half of BigQuery queries could run over 50% faster, closing a major competitive gap.

Google Cloud accelerates every organization’s ability to digitally transform its business and industry. We deliver enterprise-grade solutions that leverage Google’s cutting-edge technology, and tools that help developers build more sustainably. Customers in more than 200 countries and territories turn to Google Cloud as their trusted partner to enable growth and solve their most critical business problems.

Individual pay is determined by factors including job-related skills, experience, and relevant education or training.

US: $207000 - $301000 (USD) + 20% bonus target + equity + benefits

Responsibilities

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• Improve BigQuery engine to remove bottlenecks for low latency queries, design solutions that are easy to maintain and extend.
• Conduct tests and monitor the system to ensure quality.
• Collaborate efficiently with other BigQuery teams to reduce overhead and remove bottlenecks.
• Develop within the BigQuery and Dremel codebase, primarily C++ with some Java in the data plane and Python for tests.
• Elevate engineering excellence across the stack.

Google is proud to be an equal opportunity workplace and is an affirmative action employer. We are committed to equal employment opportunity regardless of race, color, ancestry, religion, sex, national origin, sexual orientation, age, citizenship, marital status, disability, gender identity or Veteran status. We also consider qualified applicants regardless of criminal histories, consistent with legal requirements. See also Google's EEO Policy and EEO is the Law. If you have a disability or special need that requires accommodation, please let us know by completing our Accommodations for Applicants form .