Waymo

Software Reliability Engineer

Waymo$175K — $215K *
Consumer Technology
Less than 5 years of experience
Job Overview by Ladders

Qualifications

  • 2+ years of experience in C++, Java, and/or Python
  • Interest in distributed systems and production engineering
  • Passion for autonomous driving technologies
  • Bachelor's degree in a relevant field or comparable experience
  • 3+ years of industry experience preferred
  • Proven ability to contribute to scalable, high-quality software

Responsibilities

  • Collaborate with engineers to build reliable systems for ride-hailing services
  • Manage system availability and performance with automated solutions
  • Participate in the entire service lifecycle, from design to operation
  • Implement software to improve system architecture and reduce outages
  • Act as frontline defense in incident response and blameless retrospectives

Benefits

  • Eligible for discretionary annual bonus program
  • Participation in equity incentive plan
  • Generous company benefits program
  • Hybrid work schedule
  • Opportunity for career development in cutting-edge technology
Full Job Description
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.

This role follows a hybrid work schedule and reports to the Tech Lead Manager.

You will:
  • Collaborate with other engineers to build reliable systems for the ride hailing service, real time communications between cars and offboard infrastructure, and more
  • Manage end-to-end availability and performance by measuring the system performance and developing automated solutions to improve it
  • Get involved in the whole lifecycle of services - from inception and design, through deployment, operation and refinement
  • Write designs and implement software to improve system architecture or telemetry, prevent outages, or reduce mean time to mitigation, in defense of service reliability
  • Act as frontline defense for the ride hailing service, participating in a sustainable oncall incident response team and practicing blameless retrospectives


You have:
  • 2+ years of experience writing clean, efficient code in C++, Java and/or Python
  • An interest and enthusiasm for distributed systems, production engineering, and rapidly developing transportation system technologies
  • Passion for distributed systems, rapidly evolving technologies behind transportation systems & autonomous driving, and production engineering
    in monitoring, debugging, automation, and scaling up systems
  • 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
  • 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.

Salary Range

$175,000-$215,000 USD

About Waymo

Waymo LLC is a self-driving technology development company. It is a subsidiary of Alphabet Inc., the parent company of Google. Waymo develops autonomous driving technology and provides ride-hailing services through its Waymo One program. The company has been testing its self-driving technology on public roads since 2009 and has logged millions of miles of autonomous driving. Waymo has partnerships with several automakers and has been working on developing autonomous trucks for use in logistics.
Learn more about Waymo
Size
2,000 employees
Industry
Founded
2009

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