Senior Software Engineer, BigQuery Metadata

Senior • On-site

$166,000 - $244,000/yr

Sunnyvale, CA

Minimum qualifications:

Bachelor’s degree or equivalent practical experience.
5 years of experience with software development in one or more programming languages.
3 years of experience with developing large-scale infrastructure, distributed systems or networks, or with compute technologies, storage or hardware architecture.
Experience in the following areas: Storage Systems, Databases, SQL, Data Analytics.

Preferred qualifications:

Master's degree or PhD in Computer Science or a related technical field.
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 delighting enterprise customers, with an understanding of enterprise workloads.
Experience with C++ and Java.

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.

BigQuery is an exabyte-scale, fully managed cloud data warehouse, and one of the fastest-growing products in Google Cloud Platform (GCP). It is a strategic differentiator, driving the growth of GCP by providing customers with an industry-leading analytics platform.

As part of the BigQuery Metadata team, our mission is to provide scalable, reliable, and high-performance metadata services for all BigQuery operations, enabling efficient data management and empowering users with enterprise-grade features, including metadata management for all managed tables (BigQuery and Iceberg), ensuring accuracy, durability, and resilience through continuous innovation and collaboration.

In this role, you will be instrumental in contributing to our mission with a specific focus on the physical metadata layer and Iceberg Managed Tables.

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.

The US base salary range for this full-time position is $166,000-$244,000 + bonus + equity + benefits. Our salary ranges are determined by role, level, and location. Within the range, individual pay is determined by work location and additional factors, including job-related skills, experience, and relevant education or training. Your recruiter can share more about the specific salary range for your preferred location during the hiring process.

Please note that the compensation details listed in US role postings reflect the base salary only, and do not include bonus, equity, or benefits. Learn more about benefits at Google.

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.

Google

Google LLC started as a PhD project by Larry Page and Sergey Brin in 1998 at Stanford University. Google LLC has blossomed into a behemoth of the tech world. With its mission to organize the world's information and make it universally accessible and useful, Google’s search engine is its crown jewel. Online advertising, via AdWords and AdSense, forms the backbone of its financial success. Beyond search, Google has ventured into cloud computing, hardware, and software development. The innovative PageRank algorithm revolutionized search engine technology, and surviving the dot-com bubble burst and going public in 2004 spurred its meteoric growth. Acquiring YouTube stands as a testament to Google’s strategic expansion.