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# Senior Software Engineer, BigQuery Search

- **Company:** Google LLC
- **Location:** Kirkland, WA, United States
- **Experience:** Expert
- **Salary:** $174,000.0 - $252,000.0
- **Contract:** Permanent contract
- **Skills:** Java (Programming Language), Artificial Intelligence, BigQuery, C++ (Programming Language), Code Review, Computer Programming, Databases, Relational Databases, Software Debugging, Distributed Systems, Design of User Interfaces, Push Technology, Information Retrieval, Machine Learning, Online Analytical Processing, Natural Language Processing, Online Transaction Processing, Software Architecture, Systems Development Life Cycle, Software Engineering, SQL Databases, Systems Architecture, Data Storage Technologies, System Availability, Information Technology, Data Analytics, Search Engines, Programming Languages
- **Published:** October 3, 2026
- **Apply:** https://dejobs.org/x/x/F6CD53106D38464785918E378D90307D/job/

## About the Role

Experience driving progress, solving problems, and mentoring more junior team members; deeper expertise and applied knowledge within relevant area., * Bachelor's degree or equivalent practical experience.

 * 5 years of experience with software development in one or more programming languages.
 * 3 years of experience testing, maintaining, or launching software products, and 1 year of experience with software design and architecture.
 * 3 years of experience with developing large-scale infrastructure, distributed systems or networks, or experience with compute technologies or storage.
 * Experience programming in C++ and Java.
 * Experience with SQL and large-scale distributed systems., * Master's degree or PhD in Computer Science or related technical field.
 * Experience building a query processing engine for a SQL RDBMS.
 * Experience building transaction processing systems (OLTP) or larger scale analytics (OLAP).
 * Experience in one or more of the following:Search Infrastructure, Data Analytics, Database Internals, Machine Learning.
 * High availability designs, parallel/horizontal scale-out database architectures.
 * Passion for delighting enterprise customers, and an excellent understanding of enterprise workloads.

## Description

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., * Write and test product or system development code.

 * Participate in, or lead design reviews with peers and stakeholders to decide amongst available technologies.
 * Review code developed by other developers and provide feedback to ensure best practices (e.g., style guidelines, checking code in, accuracy, testability, and efficiency).
 * Contribute to existing documentation or educational content and adapt content based on product/program updates and user feedback.
 * Triage product or system issues and debug/track/resolve by analyzing the sources of issues and the impact on hardware, network, or service operations and quality.