Distinguished Engineer, BigQuery

Job description

In accordance with Washington state law, we are highlighting our comprehensive benefits package, which is available to all eligible US based employees. Benefits for this role include:
• Health, dental, vision, life, disability insurance
• Retirement Benefits: 401(k) with company match
• Paid Time Off: 20 days of vacation per year, accruing at a rate of 6.15 hours per pay period for the first five years of employment
• Sick Time: 40 hours/year (increased to 69 hours/year for Seattle) including 5 discretionary sick days per instance
• Maternity Leave (Short-Term Disability + Baby Bonding): 28-30 weeks
• Baby Bonding Leave: 18 weeks
• Holidays: 13 paid days per year
Note: By applying to this position you will have an opportunity to share your preferred working location from the following: Kirkland, WA, USA; Sunnyvale, CA, USA . Minimum qualifications:
• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, similar technical field of study, or equivalent practical experience.
• 15 years of experience in engineering with experience in technical innovation.
• 10 years of database experience with data processing engines and systems.
Preferred qualifications:
• Experience building SQL based transaction processing systems (e.g. OLTP) or larger scale analytics (e.g. OLAP).
• Experience with high availability designs, parallel/horizontal scale-out database architectures, and cloud services.
• Experience promoting product excellence and collaboration, driving a portfolio of concurrent engineering projects ranging from short-term critical feature launches to long-term research initiatives.
• Experience motivating others to act by creating a shared sense of outlook or purpose, creating a compelling roadmap for the future, and communicating clearly, with a collaborative leadership approach.
• Passionate about delighting enterprise customers, and an excellent understanding of enterprise workloads.
About the job
BigQuery is Google's serverless data warehousing and analytics system for large and critical analytical workloads. BigQuery has pioneered the serverless query execution model among cloud datawarehouses and continues to innovate to bring insights to massive datasets as fast as possible.
We're building the next generation of analytics, adding a rich set of features into the BigQuery engine, and inventing new ways to make the BigQuery engine to scale to large data volumes at lowest latency to meet the demanding customer scenarios.
This role encompasses a broad range of scenarios involving storage, data lakes, query processing, advanced analytics, ML, and much more. You will bring expereienced database product sensibility to help align our internal development with Cloud ecosystem compatibility aspirations.
As the Distinguished Engineer, you will be leading the technical long-term strategy for our team and working closely with our engineers to see it through, while setting high technical excellence in everything we do.
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.
Individual pay is determined by factors including job-related skills, experience, and relevant education or training.
US: $364000 - $505000 (USD) + 40% bonus target + equity + benefits
Learn more about benefits at Google .
Responsibilities
• Oversee and steer all the engineering projects in multiple locations as well as drive cross-functional engineering decisions across the BigQuery sites to deliver a data warehouse in BigQuery.
• Provide domain expertise and engineering insight to guide early designs, accelerate project decision making and maintain close oversight of technical execution and proactively adjusting course where necessary.
• Drive the improvements needed in the storage and query systems, including fundamental rethinking and rearchitecting of several aspects to build the next leap of innovation in analytics.
• Partner with engineering and product management teams to drive product direction. Travel to work with engineering teams and broader leadership both within BigQuery and broadly across Google.
Google is proud to be an equal opportunity workplace and is an affirmative action employer. We are committed to equal employment opportunity regardless of race, color, ancestry, religion, sex, national origin, sexual orientation, age, citizenship, marital status, disability, gender identity or Veteran status. We also consider qualified applicants regardless of criminal histories, consistent with legal requirements. See also Google's EEO Policy and EEO is the Law. If you have a disability or special need that requires accommodation, please let us know by completing our Accommodations for Applicants form .