Software Engineer, F1 Query, SQL Query Optimization

Minimum qualifications:

• Bachelor's degree or equivalent practical experience.
• 8 years of software development experience in programming, debugging, and designing large-scale systems.
• 7 years of C++ experience.
• Experience in distributed storage or databases.
• Experience with databases and SQL (Dremel SQL, Google SQL) and query optimization.

Preferred qualifications:

• Experience with distributed systems or data infrastructure.
• Knowledge of structured data/relational data management or query processing.
• Ability to be a strong team player with a great sense of shared responsibility for our users and service.

About the job

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.

With your technical expertise you will manage project priorities, deadlines, and deliverables. You will design, develop, test, deploy, maintain, and enhance software solutions.

F1 Query is a powerful and versatile GoogleSQL query engine that is used to solve a wide range of mission-critical data challenges at Google. It is used by over 300,000 monthly active users and 110,000 applications to efficiently read and combine data from multiple heterogeneous data sources.The Core team builds the technical foundation behind Google’s flagship products. We are owners and advocates for the underlying design elements, developer platforms, product components, and infrastructure at Google. These are the essential building blocks for excellent, safe, and coherent experiences for our users and drive the pace of innovation for every developer. We look across Google’s products to build central solutions, break down technical barriers and strengthen existing systems. As the Core team, we have a mandate and a unique opportunity to impact important technical decisions across the company.

Responsibilities

• Help execute and implement F1 Query's roadmap through Design, Implementation, Testing, and Launching features and capabilities within F1 Query.
• Be responsible for query optimization for F1 Query.
• Strive to make SQL data processing easy to democratize data driven decisions at Google.
• Manage correctness, performance (efficiency and latency), or privacy/security/data governance.