Software Engineer, BigQuery Query Optimization
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Google is hiring a Software Engineer for the BigQuery Query Optimization team to enhance cloud-native data warehousing and SQL query performance. The role requires 5 years of software development experience, 3 years in large-scale distributed systems, and proficiency in C++. Compensation includes a base salary of $174,000 to $252,000 plus a 15% bonus target and equity.
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.
US: $174000 - $252000 (USD) + 15% bonus target + equity + benefits
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- Write and test 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.
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 experience with compute technologies or storage.
- Experience programming in C++.
- Experience with the following: Distributed Systems, Debugging.
Preferred qualifications:
- Master's degree or PhD in Computer Science or related technical field.
- Experience shipping mission-critical code with high performance and correctness requirements.
- Experience in debugging performance of a multi-node distributed systems.
- Domain knowledge in the SQL database query processing and query optimization space.
About the Company
Google is a technology company that specializes in Internet-related services and products, which include online advertising technologies, a search engine, cloud computing, software, and hardware. It is considered one of the Big Five American information technology companies, alongside Amazon, Apple, Meta, and Microsoft.
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