Software Engineer, BigQuery Query Optimization
Kirkland, WA, USA · Full-time · Posted Oct 13, 2026
- Experience
- 5 years in software development; 3 years in large-scale infrastructure, distributed systems or networks, or compute technologies or storage.
- Education
- Bachelor’s degree or equivalent practical experience.
About the job
Develop and optimize BigQuery query-processing systems so customers can run analytics workloads quickly and reliably.
What you'll do
- Write and test product or system development code; participate in design reviews and review others’ code.
- Contribute to documentation and educational content, adapting it to product updates and user feedback.
- Triage, debug, track, and resolve product or system issues.
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 experience with compute technologies or storage.
- Experience programming in C++, and experience with Distributed Systems and Debugging.
Nice to have
- Master's degree or PhD in Computer Science or a related technical field.
- Experience shipping mission-critical high-performance, correct code; debugging multi-node distributed-system performance; or SQL query processing and optimization domain knowledge.
Pay
$174000 - $252000 USD base salary
Tools
C++, SQL, BigQuery
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