Software Engineer III, Cloud Bigtable SQL and Analytics
Company: Google
Location: New York, NY
Salary: $147,000 - $211,000 a year
Type: Full-time
Posted: 2026-06-17
About this role
### Minimum qualifications:
- Bachelor’s degree or equivalent practical experience.
- 2 years of experience with software development or 1 year of experience with an advanced degree in an industry setting.
- 2 years of experience with developing large-scale infrastructure, distributed systems, or experience with compute technologies or storage.
- Experience in systems languages (C++ or Java).
- Experience with distributed systems concepts (concurrency, consistency models, sharding).
### Preferred qualifications:
- Master's degree or PhD in Computer Science or related technical fields.
- Experience designing public-facing APIs or libraries (CLI, REST, gRPC) with a focus on backward compatibility and usability.
- Experience in how databases work under the hood (Query Processing, Query Optimization, Storage Engines).
- Familiarity with SQL parsers, NoSQL paradigms (Cassandra, HBase, DynamoDB), or data processing frameworks (Spark, Beam).
## 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.
Cloud Bigtable is Google’s fully managed, petabyte-scale NoSQL database, serving...