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.
Waymo’s software reliability engineers (SRE) are responsible for the stable operation of Waymo’s fully autonomous systems and supporting infrastructure. As an SRE, you combine software and systems engineering techniques to build and run large-scale, fault-tolerant, reliable systems. You focus on optimizing existing systems, building new infrastructure, eliminating manual, error-prone or time-consuming work through automation, and ensuring products that are fast, efficient, and effective.
In this hybrid role you will report to a Tech Lead Manager.
You will:
- Collaborate with other engineers to build reliable systems that meet internal Waymo business needs
- Manage end-to-end availability and performance by measuring the entire system and developing automated solutions to improve it
- Involvement in the whole lifecycle of services - from inception and design, through deployment, operation and refinement
- Monitoring of massive batch production pipeline systems
- Writing designs and coding software/automation for global infrastructure
- Participate in a sustainable oncall incident response team and practice blameless retrospectives
You have:
- 2+ years of experience writing clean, efficient code in C++, Java and/or Python
- An interest and enthusiasm for massively distributed systems
- Interest in monitoring, debugging, and automation
- A Bachelors degree in a relevant field or similar experience
We prefer:
- Demonstrated ability as an individual contributor engineer, contributing to scalable, high quality software
- 3 years of industry experience
- A Bachelors of Computer Science (or similar)
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.
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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.
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