Google's BigQuery is an exabyte-scale, fully managed cloud data warehouse experiencing rapid growth. The BigQuery Metadata team is at the forefront of innovation, delivering metadata management for all managed tables, ensuring accuracy, durability, and resilience. The team is seeking a Software Engineer to contribute to the physical metadata layer and Iceberg Managed Tables, designing, developing, and maintaining critical metadata services that power BigQuery's performance and functionality.
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.
Other
- Kirkland, WA, USA; Seattle, WA, USA
- Bachelor’s degree or equivalent practical experience.
- Master's degree or PhD in Computer Science or a related technical field.
- Experience delighting enterprise customers, with an understanding of enterprise workloads.
- US base salary range for this full-time position is $141,000-$202,000 + bonus + equity + benefits.
