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.
The Configurations team is dedicated to ensuring Waymo's cars drive with the desired features based on the car’s current state (location, driving mode etc). We are also responsible for managing release deployments to our fleet of cars.
The team works with different parts of the company to achieve its mission - other engineering teams to validate and roll out new features, release organization for managing qualifications and deployments, operations for ensuring stability of configurations and validating so that we don’t mistakenly drive with incorrect configurations and so on.
You will:
- Design, implement, and maintain the large-scale backend services that deliver configurations and features to a large, real-world fleet of autonomous vehicles.
- Help build and evolve one or more mission-critical commercialization tools and systems as we scale and serve new markets.
- Collaborate with Product, Ops, Data Science, and other teams to develop systems as our needs grow and evolve
- Implement robust configuration rollout processes to manage the complexity of updating the fleet of Waymo vehicles as we scale up and deploy in new markets.
- Enable launching new features in a safe way - evaluation, A/B testing, gradual rollouts.
You have:
- 5+ years of professional software engineering experience.
- 3+ years of experience working on large-scale distributed systems.
- Proven track record of driving collaboration effectively across organizational boundaries and the ability to partner across organizational boundaries to optimize workflows and drive strategic alignment.
- Strong ability to document technical designs, processes, and communicate clearly with cross-functional teams.
- A commitment to system safety and reliability, with experience in developing mechanisms to detect and prevent the impact of configuration or software failures in a high-stakes environment.
We prefer:
- Interested in interacting with other teams to understand their needs and propose infrastructure solutions.
- Experience with C++.
- Track record of successfully executing forward looking ambitious bets.
- Familiarity with Google infrastructure (e.g. Borg, Protocol Buffers, Spanner).
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
- 5+ years of professional software engineering experience
- 3+ years of experience working on large-scale distributed systems
- Proven ability to drive collaboration across organizational boundaries and optimize workflows
- Strong ability to document technical designs, processes, and communicate clearly with cross-functional teams
- Experience developing mechanisms to detect and prevent configuration or software failures in a high-stakes environment
- Interest in interacting with teams to understand needs and propose infrastructure solutions
- Experience with C++
- Track record of executing forward-looking ambitious initiatives
- Familiarity with Google infrastructure, including Borg, Protocol Buffers, or Spanner
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.
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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.
