Senior Software Engineer, Managed Spark, OpenSource

<strong>Minimum qualifications:<br><br></strong><ul><li>Bachelor’s degree or equivalent practical experience.</li><li>5 years of experience designing, analyzing and troubleshooting large-scale distributed systems.</li><li>5 years of programming experience in Java, C++ or Golang.</li><li>Experience developing with Spark, Hive, or similar engines.</li><li>Experience in benchmarking and building custom benchmarks.</li><li>Experience in developing cloud or software as a service (SaaS) products.<br><br></li></ul><strong>Preferred qualifications:<br><br></strong><ul><li>Master's degree or PhD in Computer Science or a related technical field.</li><li>Experience with Data lakes like Apache Iceberg, Apache Hudi, Delta lake etc.</li><li>Experience with Database optimizations - query and executor optimizations.</li><li>Experience working with data science tools such as Jupyter notebooks.</li><li>Experience with Open Telemetry, JMX and other monitoring solutions.</li><li>Contributions to Apache or other similar open-source projects such as Iceberg, Delta, Hudi, Spark, Presto, Flink etc.<br><br></li></ul><strong>About the job</strong>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 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.<br><br>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.<br><br>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 .<br><br><strong>Responsibilities<br><br></strong><ul><li>Build customer-facing features for Managed Service for Apache Spark (formerly Dataproc) to run Spark in the cloud.</li><li>Drive technical design and execution for performance and lakehouse features and enhancements.</li><li>Enhance Apache Spark and lakehouse technologies like Iceberg or Delta Lake for performance, reliability, security, and monitoring.</li><li>Contribute to documentation or educational content based on product updates and user feedback, and extend open-source technologies like Apache Spark, Flink, Hive, and Trino to improve debuggability, observability, and supportability.</li><li>Review code developed by other developers and provide feedback to ensure style guidelines, code check-in, accuracy, testability, and efficiency.<br><br><br></li></ul>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 .

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