
Software Engineer III, BigQuery Engine Infrastructure
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Job overview
Google’s BigQuery engine infrastructure team builds intelligent, AI-powered infrastructure to support engineering innovation and improve BigQuery’s price-performance. The Software Engineer will work across distributed systems, performance engineering, and applied AI/ML. The role involves developing code, participating in design reviews, reviewing peers’ code, maintaining educational content, and resolving product or system issues.
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Software Engineer III, BigQuery Engine Infrastructure
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XIn most instances, this position requires in-person interviews as part of the hiring process.
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:
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Health, dental, vision, life, disability insurance
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Retirement Benefits: 401(k) with company match
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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
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Sick Time: 40 hours/year (increased to 69 hours/year for Seattle) including 5 discretionary sick days per instance
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Maternity Leave (Short-Term Disability + Baby Bonding): 28-30 weeks
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Baby Bonding Leave: 18 weeks
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Holidays: 13 paid days per year
Minimum qualifications:
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Bachelor’s degree or equivalent practical experience.
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2 years of experience with software development or 1 year of experience with an advanced degree in an industry setting.
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2 years of experience with developing large-scale infrastructure, distributed systems or networks, or experience with compute technologies or storage.
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Experience programming in C++.
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Experience in back-end and debugging .
Preferred qualifications:
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Master's degree or PhD in Computer Science or related technical fields.
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Experience or interest in applying AI/ML, LLMs, or statistical modeling to infrastructure challenges such as anomaly detection, clustering, or automated diagnostics.
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Experience or strong interest in performance engineering, benchmarking, statistical analysis, or optimizing large-scale systems.
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Familiarity with SQL, database internals, query engines, cloud data warehouses (BigQuery), or open lakehouse formats (Apache Iceberg).
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.
Google BigQuery is an exabyte-scale cloud data warehouse that runs over a billion queries a day for the world’s largest enterprises. On the BigQuery engine infrastructure at scale team, our mission is to build intelligent, AI-powered infrastructure that lets hundreds of engineers innovate fast and ship with confidence and drive BigQuery’s next-generation price-performance.
As a Software Engineer, you will build at the intersection of distributed systems, price-performance engineering, and applied AI/ML across BigQuery.
Google Cloud accelerates every organization’s ability to digitally transform its business and industry. We deliver enterprise-grade solutions that leverage Google’s 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: $147000 - $210000 (USD) + 15% bonus target + equity + benefits
Learn more aboutbenefits at Google (https://www.google.com/about/careers/applications/benefits/) .
Responsibilities
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Write product or system development code.
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Participate in, or lead design reviews with peers and stakeholders to decide amongst available technologies.
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Review code developed by other developers and provide feedback to ensure best practices (e.g., style guidelines, checking code in, accuracy, testability, and efficiency).
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Contribute to existing documentation or educational content and adapt content based on product/program updates and user feedback.
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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.
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Google is proud to be an equal opportunity and affirmative action employer. We are committed to building a workforce that is representative of the users we serve, creating a culture of belonging, and providing an equal employment opportunity regardless of race, creed, color, religion, gender, sexual orientation, gender identity/expression, national origin, disability, age, genetic information, veteran status, marital status, pregnancy or related condition (including breastfeeding), expecting or parents-to-be, criminal histories consistent with legal requirements, or any other basis protected by law. See alsoGoogle's EEO Policy (https://www.google.com/about/careers/applications/eeo/) ,Know your rights: workplace discrimination is illegal (https://careers.google.com/jobs/dist/legal/EEOC\_KnowYourRights\_10\_20.pdf) ,Belonging at Google (https://about.google/belonging/) , andHow we hire (https://careers.google.com/how-we-hire/) .
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How this job compares
Set against the 38,873 open Software Engineer jobs on Olive Jobs, counted November 14, 2026.
- Pay
- This posting$147–210K/yr
- Washington median$144–214K/yr1,838 salary ranges
- US median$132–214K/yr31,450 salary ranges
This range's midpoint, $179K, is close to the Washington median midpoint ($178K) — in the middle half of Software Engineer salary ranges in Washington.
- Openings
- Olive Jobs lists 2,060 open Software Engineer jobs in Washington and 38,873 across the US. 8% of them nationwide are listed as remote or flexible.
- Experience
- This posting asks for at least 2 years of experience — less than three in four Software Engineer postings that state a minimum ask for (median 5 years, across 32,117 postings).
- Education
- 12,029 of the 38,873 open Software Engineer jobs (31%) ask for a bachelor's degree or higher.
Pay, requirements and demand for Software Engineer jobs
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