Job Description
<div class="content-intro"><p>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.</p></div><p>Want to build the next generation of infrastructure for driverless cars? Join the Waymo Simulation Infrastructure team, and help power the future of transportation! We are looking for a passionate Staff SWE who wants to help build and manage planet-scale distributed systems. If you're someone who's curious and passionate about solving deep technical problems, and love collaborating across many teams to develop and deliver reliable, scalable, and cost-effective Infra services and tools, then we'd like to meet you!</p>
<p>In this role will report to a Senior Staff Software Engineer/TLM.</p>
<p><strong>You will:</strong></p>
<ul>
<li>Lead an Infrastructure team that builds and maintains reliable, highly-scalable, and cost-effective production services to run Simulation-based Evaluation of the Waymo Driver</li>
<li>Set the technical vision and direction for your team, and also influence the direction of the broader Infrastructure Organization.</li>
<li>Manage a team of 3-4 junior and senior SWEs,</li>
<li>Contribute production grade code, execute code reviews, drive and influence detailed technical designs</li>
<li>Align and define plans for your team in addition to influencing planning and strategy of partners and the larger Organization</li>
</ul>
<p><strong>You have:</strong></p>
<ul>
<li>Hands-on experience building large-scale distributed systems</li>
<li>Proficient in C++, or a desire or openness to learn C++</li>
<li>2+ years directly managing Software Engineers</li>
<li>Demonstrated experience working cross functionally with Product, Program, Data Science, etc.</li>
<li>History of data-driven decision-making</li>
</ul>
<p><strong>It's a bonus if you have:</strong></p>
<ul>
<li>Experience working with different types of large scale systems</li>
<li>Familiarity with Google infrastructure (e.g. Flume, Borg)</li>
<li>10+ years experience in software development</li>
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