Tech Lead Manager, BackendNew

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

  • Define the roadmap for modernizing high-performance, low-latency pipelines: that form the execution backend for massive-scale evaluation and simulation.

  • Grow and develop a team of engineers, fostering a culture of technical: excellence, code health, and continuous learning.

  • Drive the operational excellence of our evaluation pipelines, ensuring the: new backend architecture is highly reliable, efficient, and scalable.

  • Lead the migration and integration of legacy evaluation workflows into the: new architecture, optimizing execution efficiency and resource utilization.

  • Ensure the long-term stability and health of production systems while: championing developer experience and best-in-class software practices.

  • Partner with Data Science, Simulation, and Systems Engineering leads to: translate complex evaluation requirements into robust, high-performance infrastructure solutions.

What they're looking for

  • + years of full-time software engineering experience (or a CS PhD with 2+: years of professional SWE experience).
  • + years of prior management experience.
  • Advanced command of C++ (or another OOP language) with functional familiarity in Python and SQL.
  • A deep interest in autonomous driving, simulation-based evaluation, and large-scale data systems.
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