Job description
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. As a manager, you’ll be directly responsible for your team’s execution, output and growing their careers. As a senior leader, you’ll also be responsible for SRE-wide and cross functional leadership and organizational strategies.
In this hybrid role you will report to the overall SRE lead
You will:
- Ramp up and learn the unique technical landscape and business needs that Waymo requires
- Hire and manage a new Waymo SRE team – 1:1s, setting OKRs and guiding work, and developing your team’s careers
- Become a Waymo production expert, participate effectively in the oncall rotation, and work with the team to automate Waymo’s systems to be more resilient, reliable, and scalable
- Work with SREs, SWE partners and PMs to develop and set the technical direction and architectural guidelines for Waymo’s software development
- Plan the growth of SRE at Waymo, hire additional SREs as the team grows rapidly
- Transition into a manager-of-managers and lead + own the entire customer-facing SRE space for Waymo
You have:
- Strong team management, leadership, and communication skills, with experience navigating a critical and horizontal space
- 10+ years of industry experience in reliability engineering or production systems
- 5+ years of experience as a manager
- The ability to lead a technical engineering team and align engineering goals and outcomes with business objectives and senior leadership
- Been in an oncall rotation at some point in your career
- A Bachelors of Science in a relevant field
We prefer:
- Experience managing direct reports and also managers
- A demonstrated track record of aligning reliability engineering culture and goals with overall business level objectives and priorities
- A demonstrated ability to engage deeply on technical issues the company and your team will face
- A Bachelors of Computer Science (or similar)
Travel requirements:
- 10% travel time
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
$281,000—$356,000 USD
