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
Serve as a Waymo production expert, and collaborate with other engineers to: build reliable systems for autonomous vehicle operations, including depot logistics, automation flow, and critical vehicle state infrastructure.
Manage end-to-end availability and performance for core fleet services,: ensuring we have enough usable vehicle supply available to meet targeted user demand, and developing observability and automation to support this goal.
Write designs and implement software to improve system architecture,: telemetry or deployment for fleet-specific mission-critical services, preventing outages that could hinder vehicle launch or maintenance.
Provide technical leadership and direction while troubleshooting highly: complex system reliability issues and managing technical debt.
Arbitrate in cases of technical disagreement among team members, SREs, SWE: partners, and PMs to set global architectural guidelines.
Lead cross-functional and cross-organizational collaborations to integrate: disparate projects and processes into widely-reusable components and services.
What they're looking for
- Champion operational excellence and blameless retrospectives, mentoring and: developing leadership within the team to ensure efficient delivery of the vision.
- Drive operational standards for fleet and supply infrastructure by leading: incident response efforts. You’ll participate in a sustainable on-call rotation, while championing a culture of blameless retrospectives to drive continuous improvement.
- + years of experience architecting and maintaining mission-critical systems in C++, Java, or Python.
- Proven depth and breadth of knowledge in software reliability, acting as the: "go-to" expert for resolving highly complex, high-impact system failures..
