Senior Software Engineer, Configuration & ExperimentsNew$215K

The opportunity

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…

What you'll do

  • 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.

  • + years of professional software engineering experience.

What they're looking for

  • + 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.