Ridehailing, Site Reliability Engineer

Waymo is an autonomous driving technology company focused on building the Waymo Driver, a fully autonomous ride-hail service and vehicle platform. The Waymo Driver has provided over ten million rider-only trips and driven over 100 million miles on public roads across 15+ U.S. states.

• 6+ years of experience architecting and maintaining mission-critical systems in C++, Java, or Python
• Proven ability in performance profiling and leading large-scale refactoring to improve system maintainability and latency
• Experience managing massive distributed systems and solving production engineering challenges at the intersection of software and physical vehicle fleets
• Proven track record defining SLIs/SLOs/SLA frameworks and designing/deploying observability systems for system visibility and reliability
• Experience leading cross-functional initiatives between Engineering and Dev
• History of mentoring junior and mid-level engineers and driving technical roadmap decisions
• Bachelor's degree in a relevant field or 8+ years of similar experience with leadership experience

Nice to have:

• Engineering leadership of mission-critical systems at scale
• Experience translating reliability needs into technical roadmaps and data-driven SLO frameworks
• Ability to lead deep-dive architectural investigations and resolve complex system failures
• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or similar

• Become a Waymo production expert and collaborate with engineers to build reliable systems for autonomous vehicle operations, including depot logistics, automation flow, and critical vehicle state infrastructure
• Manage end-to-end availability and performance for core fleet services to meet targeted user demand
• Develop observability and automation to support fleet service goals
• Participate in the full lifecycle of services from inception to refinement
• Write designs and implement software to improve system architecture, telemetry, or deployment for mission-critical fleet services
• Write designs and code software/automation for global infrastructure
• Serve as first responder for fleet and supply infrastructure, leading incident response efforts and participating in on-call rotation
• Work with SREs, SWE partners, and PMs to develop technical direction and architectural guidelines for Waymo's software development