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Staff Software Engineer, BigQuery Processing Core Runtime

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Hybrid (Kirkland, WA; Sunnyvale, CA; New York, NY)$207k - $300kFull-timePosted 3w ago

About the role

Senior software engineering role focused on leadership and hands-on development to improve the BigQuery processing core runtime, with emphasis on low-latency, high-throughput queries across multi-cloud environments.

Responsibilities

  • Provide technical leadership on projects.
  • Design, develop, test, deploy, maintain, and enhance large-scale software solutions.
  • Improve BigQuery engine to remove bottlenecks for low latency queries, design solutions that are easy to maintain and extend.
  • Work with BigQuery and Dremel codebase, which is primarily C++ with some Java in data planes and Python for tests.

Qualifications

  • Bachelor's degree or equivalent practical experience.
  • 8 years of experience with one or more general purpose programming languages including but not limited to: Java, C/C++ or Python.
  • 5 years of experience building and developing large-scale infrastructure, distributed systems or networks, or experience with compute technologies, storage, or hardware architecture.
  • Experience with GPU programming (CUDA, OpenCL) and optimization techniques.

Skills

Required:Programming languagesDistributed systemsGPU programming

Benefits

  • Health, dental, vision, life, disability insurance
  • Retirement Benefits: 401(k) with company match
  • Paid Time Off: 20 days of vacation per year, accruing at 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
Last updated Oct 23, 2026. Interested? Apply on the company site.

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