Software Reliability Engineer

Waymo
Mountain View; San Francisco, US
HybridCareer-pivot friendly

Who this role is best for

Best suited to mid-level engineers with experience in distributed systems and production engineering who thrive in hybrid work environments.

Best fit for

  • Engineers passionate about optimizing large-scale, fault-tolerant systems through automation.
    — “build and run large-scale, fault-tolerant, reliable systems
  • Candidates with a strong interest in autonomous driving technologies and distributed systems.
    — “Passion for distributed systems, rapidly evolving technologies behind transportation systems & autonomous driving
  • Individuals comfortable with on-call responsibilities and incident response in a ride-hailing service.
    — “Act as frontline defense for the ride hailing service, participating in a sustainable oncall incident response team

Things to consider

  • Hybrid work schedule requires presence in Mountain View or San Francisco.
    — “This role follows a hybrid work schedule
  • On-call duties are part of the role, including incident response.
    — “participating in a sustainable oncall incident response team

How to stand out

  • Highlight specific examples of automating manual processes in past roles.
    — “eliminating manual, error-prone or time-consuming work through automation
  • Demonstrate contributions to system reliability and performance improvements.
    — “Manage end-to-end availability and performance by measuring the system performance and developing automated solutions to improve it
  • Showcase experience with C++, Java, or Python in production environments.
    — “2+ years of experience writing clean, efficient code in C++, Java and/or Python
Pace · SteadyCollaboration · HighAutonomy · MediumDecision Impact · TeamLevel · Mid

Derived from job-description analysis by Serendipath's career intelligence engine.

What success looks like

  • building and maintaining reliable systems
  • improving system architecture
Typical background
software engineeringproduction engineering

Skills & requirements

Required

C++JavaPythonDistributed SystemsProduction Engineering

Preferred

Autonomous Driving Technology

Stack & domain

C++JavaPythonCommunicationLeadershipSoftware ReliabilityDistributed Systems

About the role

Original posting from Waymo

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.

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

Source: Waymo careers

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