Waymo is an autonomous driving technology company with the mission to be the world's most trusted driver. Since its start as the Google Self-Driving Car Project in 2009, Waymo has focused on building the Waymo Driver—The World's Most Experienced Driver™—to improve access to mobility while saving thousands of lives now lost to traffic crashes. The Waymo Driver powers Waymo’s fully autonomous ride-hail service and can also be applied to a range of vehicle platforms and product use cases. The Waymo Driver has provided over ten million rider-only trips, enabled by its experience autonomously driving over 100 million miles on public roads and tens of billions in simulation across 15+ U.S. states.
This role follows a hybrid work schedule.
You will:
• Design, develop, and maintain high-throughput distributed backend components and services (C++, Flume/Apache Spark/Flink/Beam) powering Waymo's Commercialization Data Lake.
• Own the scalable ingestion of data from raw system telemetry and RPC logs, processing petabytes of logs into reliable, daily canonical base tables.
• Build, harden, and democratize Data Pipeline Services, offering standard templates and self-service gateways for downstream consumption.
• Implement foundational compliance, privacy, and security infrastructure (e.g., GDPR wipeout, ACL management, BCID enforcement, and identity proxies).
• Establish rigorous operational standards, guarding pipelines with regression tests, staging environments, Canary/Progressive rollouts to defend high SLO.
• Collaborate with Data Engineers and Product Data Scientists to set global platform consistency, dependency tracing, and linear DAG architecture guidelines.
You have:
• BS/MS in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, or equivalent.
• 4+ years of professional backend software engineering experience, focused heavily on distributed systems, databases, and production monitoring.
• Excellent understanding of data structures, algorithms, and fundamental software design principles.
• Advanced proficiency in C++ and SQL applied to high-throughput batch and streaming processing pipelines.
• Prior experience running data pipelines through hardened release setups (Canarying, Staging environments, Automated Rollbacks).
We prefer:
• Extensive experience with distributed processing frameworks (e.g., Spark, Flink, Beam, Hadoop, Flume, or equivalent large-scale processing engines).
• Experience in building and maintaining Data Warehouse / Data Lake systems
• Experience baking Data Governance, Privacy, or Compliance layers (e.g., encryption, GDPR, RBAC/ACLs) directly into core infrastructure.
• High proficiency with Google-internal pipeline/data stacks (Flume, SQLP, Rapid, CAS, F1).
The expected base salary range for this full-time position across US locations is listed below. Actual starting pay will be based on job-related factors, including exact work location, experience, relevant training and education, and skill level. Your recruiter can share more about the specific salary range for the role location or, if the role can be performed remote, the specific salary range for your preferred location, during the hiring process.
Waymo employees are also eligible to participate in Waymo’s discretionary annual bonus program, equity incentive plan, and generous Company benefits program, subject to eligibility requirements.
Skills Required
- Bachelor’s or master’s degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, or equivalent
- At least 4 years of professional backend software engineering experience focused on distributed systems, databases, and production monitoring
- Strong understanding of data structures, algorithms, and fundamental software design principles
- Advanced proficiency in C++ and SQL for high-throughput batch and streaming processing pipelines
- Experience operating data pipelines using canary releases, staging environments, and automated rollbacks
- Extensive experience with distributed processing frameworks such as Spark, Flink, Beam, Hadoop, or Flume
- Experience building and maintaining data warehouse or data lake systems
- Experience integrating data governance, privacy, or compliance layers into core infrastructure
- High proficiency with Google-internal pipeline and data stacks including Flume, SQLP, Rapid, CAS, and F1
Waymo Compensation & Benefits Highlights
The following summarizes recurring compensation and benefits themes identified from responses generated by popular LLMs to common candidate questions about Waymo and has not been reviewed or approved by Waymo.
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Fair & Transparent Compensation — Pay is considered strong for full‑time technical roles, aligning with top‑tier AV/Big Tech benchmarks. Employer materials also emphasize competitive pay with eligibility for bonuses and equity as part of total rewards.
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Healthcare Strength — Coverage spans medical, dental, vision, mental‑health resources, onsite wellness centers, and counseling, with specialized programs such as menopause and transgender medical advocacy. Dependents are included, indicating depth across core health needs.
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Parental & Family Support — Offerings include fertility and family‑forming assistance, parental and baby‑bonding leave, caregiver and elder‑care support, and backup childcare. These programs are positioned to support families through multiple life stages.
Waymo Insights
What We Do
Waymo is an autonomous driving technology company with a mission to make it safe and easy for people and things to move around. With the Waymo Driver, we can improve the world’s mobility while saving thousands of lives. Waymo reaches out to candidates from official channels only (e.g. directly from @waymo.com email addresses, or through our recruiters or sourcers who are noted as such on LinkedIn). We do not contact candidates about career opportunities through instant messaging apps like Telegram, email addresses from domains other than waymo.com (such as Gmail addresses), direct messages on Twitter, Facebook, and Instagram, or text messages. Visit waymo.com to check out our official job listings.
