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Senior Software Engineer, BigQuery Multimodal Storage and Lakehouse

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16 hours ago
Kirkland, WA, USASenior
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Base Salary

$174k - $252k/yr

Responsibilities

  • Write and test product or system development code.
  • Participate in or lead design reviews and select among available technologies with peers and stakeholders.
  • Review code and provide feedback on style, correctness, testability, efficiency, and other engineering practices.
  • Develop advanced data table features supporting streaming, efficient updates, and open-source engine integration.
  • Engineer high-performance data loaders for AI/ML frameworks to optimize GPU training pipelines.
  • Build and optimize Vortex read/write paths in BigQuery using C++ and Rust, including filter and projection pushdown onto compressed encodings.

Requirements

  • Bachelor’s degree or equivalent practical experience.
  • Five years of software development experience in C++ or Rust.
  • Three years of experience developing large-scale infrastructure, distributed systems or networks, compute technologies, storage, or hardware architecture.
  • Experience with distributed computing, distributed databases, and distributed systems.
  • Experience designing and developing relational databases, database internals, query processing, and query optimization.
  • Preferred: master’s degree or PhD in Computer Science or a related technical field.
  • Preferred: experience with BigQuery, database systems, or storage systems.
  • Preferred: familiarity with AI/ML data pipelines, PyTorch/JAX data loaders, vector search, or GPU programming.

Benefits

  • Equity and employee benefits are offered.
  • The listed US base salary is accompanied by a 15% bonus target, equity, and benefits.

Tech Stack

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BackendData Engineering
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About Google

10,000+ employees

Google builds consumer and enterprise software and services including Search, Android, YouTube, Chrome, Maps, Gmail, and Google Cloud. Its business model centers on digital advertising and paid cloud, software, and hardware offerings (e.g., Pixel and Nest) for consumers, developers, and organizations. Founded in 1998 and headquartered in Mountain View, California, Google operates globally as a subsidiary of Alphabet Inc.

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