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X In most instances, this position requires in-person interviews as part of the hiring process.
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 or equivalent practical experience.
- 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 or storage.
- Experience programming in C .
- Experience in back-end and debugging .
Preferred qualifications:- Master's degree or PhD in Computer Science or related technical fields.
- Experience or interest in applying AI/ML, LLMs, or statistical modeling to infrastructure challenges such as anomaly detection, clustering, or automated diagnostics.
- Experience or strong interest in performance engineering, benchmarking, statistical analysis, or optimizing large-scale systems.
- Familiarity with SQL, database internals, query engines, cloud data warehouses (BigQuery), or open lakehouse formats (Apache Iceberg).
About the jobGoogle BigQuery is an exabyte-scale cloud data warehouse that runs over a billion queries a day for the world's largest enterprises. On the BigQuery engine infrastructure at scale team, our mission is to build intelligent, AI-powered infrastructure that lets hundreds of engineers innovate fast and ship with confidence and drive BigQuery's next-generation price-performance.
As a Software Engineer, you will build at the intersection of distributed systems, price-performance engineering, and applied AI/ML across BigQuery.
US: $147000 - $210000 (USD) 15% bonus target equity benefits
Responsibilities - Write product or system development code.
- Participate in, or lead design reviews with peers and stakeholders to decide amongst 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 and the impact on hardware, network, or service operations and quality.
