Senior Software Engineer, BigLake Federation

• Design, build, and maintain high-performance, scalable distributed services and foundational building blocks that enable customers to query and federate data across multiple clouds and enterprise platforms at competitive costs.
• Own end-to-end technical execution of complex initiatives, from architectural design and prototype validation through cross-functional reviews and global production rollout.
• Provide technical leadership and mentorship to team members, driving engineering best practices, thorough design reviews, and high operational excellence.
• Communicate architectural goal, project status, and technical trade-offs with clarity to engineering peers, Product Management, Site Reliability Engineering, and external partners.
• Influence the technical roadmap for BigLake Federation in collaboration with global engineering leads, anticipating customer needs and translating them into durable, scalable solutions.

Minimum qualifications:

• Bachelor’s degree or equivalent practical experience.
• 5 years of experience in software development with one or more general-purpose programming languages (e.g., C++, Java, Go, or Python).
• Experience in system design, distributed systems, or large-scale data processing.

Preferred qualifications:

• Experience working with cloud platforms (e.g., Google Cloud, Cloud Computing Platform), multi-cloud environments, or big data technologies.
• Experience working with open-source data ecosystems (e.g., Apache Iceberg, Apache Spark) or enterprise data platforms (e.g., Workday, Salesforce).
• Demonstrated technical leadership: driving ambiguous technical initiatives from design to production and mentoring other engineers.
• Cross-functional communication and collaboration skills.

• Bachelor’s degree or equivalent practical experience.
• 5 years of experience in software development with one or more general-purpose programming languages (e.g., C++, Java, Go, or Python).
• Experience in system design, distributed systems, or large-scale data processing.