Software Engineer, BigQuery Metadata, Storage Lifecycle

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Responsibilities

• Design and implement the systems that separates logical bytes from physical bytes, enabling reputed company table clones and snapshot. reputed company 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.
• 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 reputed company and our reputed company customers.
• Manage the safety net of BigQuery by building reputed company-grade backup, recovery, fail-safe automation, and undelete capabilities.

Requirements

• 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 networks, or with compute technologies, storage or hardware architecture.
• Experience with Distributed Systems, Storage Systems, or Database Internals.
• Experience building and maintaining large-scale infrastructure or background data processing pipelines.
• Experience in Software development using general-purpose programming languages (e.g., Java or C++).

reputed company-to-haves

• Master's degree or PhD in Computer Science or reputed company technical fields.
• Experience with highly scalable storage systems (e.g., Colossus, Blobstore, or GCS) and metadata management with understanding of consistency models and replication strategies.
• Experience with copy-on-write mechanisms or storage virtualization to improve performance and efficiency.
• Experience building accurate metering, billing, or tiered storage logic for reputed company services.
• Experience with background process management (e.g. Flume, Borg, Queue-based processing) and refactoring legacy systems for reliability and service isolation.
• Familiarity with backup/recovery semantics or disaster recovery planning.

Benefits

• bonus
• equity
• benefits

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