Waymo
Senior Staff Site Reliability Engineer, Lead
$298K–$368K
Mountain View, CA, USA +1 · Senior Staff · Full-time · Posted Sep 4, 2026
- Location
- Mountain View, CA, USA
Mountain View, California, United States - Experience
- 15+ years in large-scale production software systems and 15+ years of hands-on C++ coding; preferred: 15+ years leading hybrid hardware/software production systems.
- Education
- Master's degree or PhD in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related technical field.
About the job
Leads reliability engineering for critical production services and software delivery systems supporting Waymo’s autonomous vehicle fleet.
What you'll do
- Lead incident response, retrospectives, on-call processes, disaster recovery planning, and reliability improvements.
- Investigate and resolve novel or unexpected events, and partner with engineering to harden critical software and improve its robustness.
- Contribute to software architecture and promote reliability engineering practices across the organization.
What they ask for
- Master's degree or PhD in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related technical field.
- 15+ years of experience with large-scale production software systems, especially machine learned systems.
- 15+ years of hands-on coding experience with C++.
- Expertise in large-scale distributed systems, observability, monitoring, incident management, and production operations.
Nice to have
- 15+ years leading hybrid hardware/software production systems.
- Experience leading teams working on modern deep ML / large-scale models; track record of organizational change in 1000+ person engineering organizations.
Pay
$298,000 — $368,000 USD (base salary)
Tools
C++
AI focus
Reliability engineering for production software systems, especially machine learned systems; preferred experience includes teams working on deep ML / large-scale models.
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