Software Engineer, Next-Generation Data Warehouse Napa, Core Data

Minimum qualifications:

• Bachelor's degree or equivalent practical experience.
• 8 years of experience in software development.
• 5 years of experience testing, and launching software products.
• 3 years of experience with software design and architecture.
• Experience in distributed databases and large-scale distributed systems.

Preferred qualifications:

• Master’s degree or PhD in Engineering, Computer Science, or a related technical field.
• Experience in SQL or database internals or storage systems.

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.

Napa is the new peta-scale, multi-homed, distributed storage engine optimized for high-update throughput of metrics data. Napa provides materialized views, supports low-latency point queries and high-throughput table scans, updates are consistently applied to materialized views across data centers.

Napa is used for a wider variety of use cases, enabling data analysis across business critical Google applications, products, and services. It is built to be used by clients at Google, including AdsMob, AdSense, Billing, BidLandscapes, Budget Server, DRX, Play, Payments, Rasta, Google Search App, etc.

The Core team builds the technical foundation behind Google’s flagship products. We are owners and advocates for the underlying design elements, developer platforms, product components, and infrastructure at Google. These are the essential building blocks for excellent, safe, and coherent experiences for our users and drive the pace of innovation for every developer. We look across Google’s products to build central solutions, break down technical barriers and strengthen existing systems. As the Core team, we have a mandate and a unique opportunity to impact important technical decisions across the company.

• Provide technical leadership on high-impact projects.
• Collaborate on planning roadmap.
• Partner with infrastructure and client teams to guide integrations, Infrastructure productionization and deployment.
• Develop a large-scale distributed system.
• Review designs and code of other engineers for quality and correctness.