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Software Engineer, BigQuery Metadata

Google

$141,000 - $202,000
Sep 17, 2025
Sunnyvale, CA, US
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Google's BigQuery Metadata team is seeking a Software Engineer to contribute to the physical metadata layer and Iceberg Managed Tables, ensuring accuracy, durability, and resilience for exabyte-scale data warehouse services that power Google Cloud Platform's analytics platform.

Requirements

  • 2 years of experience with software development or 1 year of experience with an advanced degree in an industry setting.
  • 2 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 areas: Storage Systems, Databases, SQL, Data Analytics.
  • Experience building infrastructure in Google Cloud or other Cloud providers.
  • Experience with high-performance scalable storage and distributed systems back-ends.
  • Experience building or operating large-scale database or data warehouse systems.
  • Experience with C++ and Java.

Responsibilities

  • Design and implement algorithms to automatically update the physical shape of stored data, taking into account system efficiency, scale, and user query performance.
  • Design and implement tests and experiments to evaluate and monitor the performance of the system.
  • Use the full battery of tools and instrumentation to develop, test and rollout features.
  • Coordinate with product engineers in all parts of the software stack.
  • contributing to our mission by designing, developing, and maintaining critical metadata services that power BigQuery's performance and functionality.

Other

  • By applying to this position you will have an opportunity to share your preferred working location from the following: Kirkland, WA, USA; Seattle, WA, USA; Sunnyvale, CA, USA.
  • 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.
  • Experience delighting enterprise customers, with an understanding of enterprise workloads.
  • The US base salary range for this full-time position is $141,000-$202,000 + bonus + equity + benefits.
  • 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.