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Tech Lead, BigQuery Multimodal Strategy and Architecture

Google· BigQuery / Data Infrastructure
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Kirkland, WA, USA$262k - $364kFull-timePosted 1w ago

About the role

Tech Lead responsible for the goal, strategy, and architectural design of BigQuery’s file formats, steering adoption of next-generation columnar formats and multimodal data formats, and coordinating with related teams.

Responsibilities

  • Direct the end-to-end technical strategy for BigQuery's storage formats, and determine the roadmap for proprietary formats (Capacitor) versus emerging open standards (Vortex, Lance, BtrBlocks).
  • Design storage layer innovations enabling zero-copy column updates/additions, extremely efficient random access, and seamless integration with deep learning training pipelines.
  • Partner with Dremel, BigLake, and GCS teams to ensure the execution engine supports next-generation formats without regressing SQL concurrency.
  • Position Google as a thought leader in the open data lakehouse ecosystem, guiding the future formats for data infrastructure.
  • Lead technical and ROI evaluations of open-source formats, and assess costs to integrate Arrow-native execution with BigQuery pipelines for wide tables and multimodal AI.

Qualifications

  • Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or related technical field, or equivalent practical experience.
  • 8 years of experience designing and optimizing distributed systems, storage architectures, or database internals (columnar storage formats, serialization, or query execution engines).

Skills

Required:Storage formats strategySystem design for distributed storageCollaboration with cross-functional teams

Benefits

  • Health, dental, vision, life, disability insurance
  • Retirement Benefits: 401(k) with company match
  • Paid Time Off: 20 days vacation per year (accrual), Sick Time: 40 hours/year (69 hours/year in Seattle) including 5 discretionary sick days per instance
  • Maternity Leave: 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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