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BigQuery has pioneered the serverless query execution model among cloud datawarehouses and continues to innovate to bring insights to massive datasets as fast as possible.\nWe're building the next generation of analytics, adding a rich set of features into the BigQuery engine, and inventing new ways to make the BigQuery engine to scale to large data volumes at lowest latency to meet the demanding customer scenarios.\nThis role encompasses a broad range of scenarios involving storage, data lakes, query processing, advanced analytics, ML, and much more. You will bring expereienced database product sensibility to help align our internal development with Cloud ecosystem compatibility aspirations.\nAs the Distinguished Engineer, you will be leading the technical long-term strategy for our team and working closely with our engineers to see it through, while setting high technical excellence in everything we do.\nGoogle 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.\nIndividual pay is determined by factors including job-related skills, experience, and relevant education or training.US: $364000 - $505000 (USD) + 40% bonus target + equity + benefits\nLearn more about benefits at Google.\nResponsibilities\nOversee and steer all the engineering projects in multiple locations as well as drive cross-functional engineering decisions across the BigQuery sites to deliver a data warehouse in BigQuery. \nProvide domain expertise and engineering insight to guide early designs, accelerate project decision making and maintain close oversight of technical execution and proactively adjusting course where necessary.\nDrive the improvements needed in the storage and query systems, including fundamental rethinking and rearchitecting of several aspects to build the next leap of innovation in analytics.\nPartner with engineering and product management teams to drive product direction. Travel to work with engineering teams and broader leadership both within BigQuery and broadly across Google.\nQualifications\nMinimum qualifications:\nBachelor's degree in Computer Science, similar technical field of study, or equivalent practical experience.\n15 years of experience in engineering with experience in technical innovation.\n10 years of database experience with data processing engines and systems.\nPreferred qualifications:\nExperience building SQL based transaction processing systems (e.g. OLTP) or larger scale analytics (e.g. OLAP).\nExperience with high availability designs, parallel/horizontal scale-out database architectures, and cloud services.\nExperience promoting product excellence and collaboration, driving a portfolio of concurrent engineering projects ranging from short-term critical feature launches to long-term research initiatives.\nExperience motivating others to act by creating a shared sense of outlook or purpose, creating a compelling roadmap for the future, and communicating clearly, with a collaborative leadership approach.\nPassionate about delighting enterprise customers, and an excellent understanding of enterprise workloads.","description_format":"text","description_chars":3534,"description_truncated":false,"requirements":{"experience_years_min":10,"management_years_min":null,"team_size_min":null,"manages_managers":false,"education":{"level":"bachelor","optional":true},"security_clearance":false,"languages":[]},"benefits":["Equity"],"hiring_locations":[],"hiring_excludes":[],"relocation_offered":false,"industries":["Operating Systems","Streaming & OTT Platforms","Foundation Models","Consumer Internet Groups"],"lifecycle":[{"event":"open","at":"2026-09-30T04:49:33Z"}],"liveness":{"score":63,"band":"ok","label":"Likely open","p_open":1,"p_active":0.632,"p_room":1,"age_days":1,"expected_fill_days":29,"reasons":["conf:8","stale_co","velocity","win:early","comp:brand"],"computed_at":"2026-10-01T05:45:00Z"},"pay":null,"html_url":"https://alion.io/job/google-distinguished-engineer-bigquery","json_url":"https://alion.io/job/google-distinguished-engineer-bigquery.json","meta":{"generated_at":"2026-10-01T10:06:47Z","cache_seconds":300,"methodology":"https://alion.io/methodology","terms":"https://alion.io/terms","contact":"https://alion.io/contact","api":"https://alion.io/developers","usage":{"tier":"crawler","counted_by":"address","units_charged":1,"used_today":1181,"day_limit":5000,"remaining_today":3819,"minute_limit":60,"resets_at":"2026-10-02T00:00:00Z"}}}