Software Engineer III, BigQuery, Router

About the job

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.

We own the BigQuery Router, the critical front door for all incoming BigQuery requests. Our team ensures BigQuery's reliability and provides the foundation for its strategic capabilities.

Google Cloud accelerates every organization’s ability to digitally transform its business and industry. We deliver enterprise-grade solutions that leverage Google’s cutting-edge technology, and tools that help developers build more sustainably. Customers in more than 200 countries and territories turn to Google Cloud as their trusted partner to enable growth and solve their most critical business problems.

Responsibilities

• Build Google-scale systems that never fail and manage millions of Queries Per Second (QPS) with the lowest possible latency.
• Work in a small and a focused team where your contribution and technical impact will be substantial, with ability to directly influence on the engineering directions.
• Collaborate across many teams within BigQuery and generic Google services.
• Work closely with BigQuery SREs and Leads from various domains.

Minimum qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree or equivalent practical experience.
• 2 years of experience with software programming in C++.
• Experience in Network protocols.
• Experience in Low Latency Networking and High Performance Computing
• Experience in Distributed Computing and Parallel Computing.

Preferred qualifications:

• Experience working with different network protocols.
• Experience building high load and high performant systems.
• Experience working as or with Site Reliability Engineers.