Senior Software Engineer, Release Channel
Kirkland, WA, USA · Senior · Full-time · Posted Oct 6, 2026
- Experience
- 5 years software development; 3 years large-scale infrastructure/distributed systems/networks or compute/storage; 3 years testing, maintaining, or launching software products; 1 year software design and architecture.
- Education
- Bachelor’s degree or equivalent practical experience.
About the job
Leads the strategy and architecture for BigQuery release-channel capacity management, addressing distributed-systems and resource-fragmentation challenges to support stable, scalable rollouts.
What you'll do
- Write and test product or system development code; review designs and code.
- Drive the long-term strategy, architecture, and roadmap for BigQuery release-channel capacity management with Workload Management.
- Triage and resolve system issues, and contribute to documentation.
What they ask for
- Bachelor’s degree or equivalent practical experience.
- 5 years of software development experience in one or more programming languages.
- 3 years of experience developing large-scale infrastructure, distributed systems or networks, or working with compute technologies or storage; and 3 years testing, maintaining, or launching software products, including 1 year in software design and architecture.
- Experience in Backend, Cloud, and Large-Scale Distributed Systems.
Nice to have
- Master's degree or PhD in Computer Science or related technical field.
- Experience with capacity management/planning, high-performance backend systems, C++, Big Data, or technical leadership.
Pay
$174000 - $252000 USD base salary
Tools
Google Cloud Platform (GCP), BigQuery, C++
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