Senior Software Engineer, BigQuery ZStore, Storage Lifecycle Management

Company: Google
Location: Kirkland
Posted on: April 3, 2026

Job Description:

info_outline X 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 (statutory, where applicable); 5 days/event (discretionary) Maternity Leave (Short-Term Disability Baby Bonding): 28-30 weeks Baby Bonding Leave: 18 weeks Holidays: 13 paid days per year Minimum qualifications: Bachelor’s degree or equivalent practical experience. 5 years of experience with software development in one or more programming languages. 3 years of experience with developing large-scale infrastructure, distributed systems or networks, or experience with compute technologies, storage or hardware architecture. Experience with software development using general-purpose programming languages (e.g., Java or C++). Experience with distributed Systems, storage systems, or database internals. Experience building and maintaining large-scale infrastructure or background data processing pipelines. Preferred qualifications: Master's degree or PhD in Computer Science or a related technical field. Experience in data protection (e.g., backup/recovery semantics or disaster recovery planning) and infrastructure reliability (e.g., background process management and refactoring legacy systems for reliability and service isolation), and building accurate metering, billing, or tiered storage logic for cloud services. Experience in Copy-on-Write (CoW) mechanisms and storage virtualization to improve performance and efficiency. Knowledge of highly scalable storage systems and metadata management. Understanding of consistency models and replication strategies. Ability to navigate architectural migrations and define technical strategy for long-term storage life-cycle management. 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. In this role, you will work on a live, exabyte-scale system, solving distributed systems problems where metadata scale and physical storage constraints collide, enabling the business to manage the next 10x growth in data volume and complexity. 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. The US base salary range for this full-time position is $174,000-$252,000 bonus equity benefits. Our salary ranges are determined by role, level, and location. Within the range, individual pay is determined by work location and additional factors, including job-related skills, experience, and relevant education or training. Your recruiter can share more about the specific salary range for your preferred location during the hiring process. Please note that the compensation details listed in US role postings reflect the base salary only, and do not include bonus, equity, or benefits. Learn more about benefits at Google . Responsibilities Design and implement the systems that separate logical bytes from physical bytes, enabling instant Table Clones and Snapshots. Design and maintain data copy and replication solutions that allow data to move seamlessly between regions and cells. Ensure high availability and facilitate migration scenarios without user downtime. Implement capabilities to automatically classify data based on access patterns, optimizing costs for both Google and our enterprise customers. Manage the safety net of BigQuery by building enterprise-grade Backup, Recovery, Fail-safe automation, and Undelete capabilities. Lead the transition of legacy systems toward metadata-driven operations to reduce storage footprints and improve margins, and improve the massive-scale garbage collection pipelines required to reclaim physical resources and ensure system health.

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