Waymo
Sr. Staff Data Architect
$298K–$368K
Mountain View, California, USA +2 · Senior Staff · Full-time · Posted Aug 31, 2026
- Location
- Mountain View, California, USA
Mountain View, California, United States
San Francisco, California, United States - Experience
- 12+ years.
- Education
- BS/MS/PhD in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, or equivalent.
About the job
Leads Waymo’s data lake architecture and governance, establishing scalable pipelines, platform standards, and self-service services for data teams.
What you'll do
- Set the global Data Lake roadmap and lead architecture across centralized infrastructure and embedded product domains.
- Establish standards for pipeline design, testing, dependencies, and Data Design Reviews; create reusable pipeline frameworks and managed services.
- Integrate privacy, access control, and compliance into core data architecture.
What they ask for
- BS/MS/PhD in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, or equivalent.
- 12+ years leading design, implementation, and operations of multi-Petabyte Data Lake/Data Warehouse solutions in high-growth companies.
- Proven experience leading data governance and data platform maturity transitions.
- Expert-level technical depth in distributed batch/streaming frameworks; effective cross-functional influence across large stakeholder groups.
Nice to have
- Hands-on knowledge of cloud-native or internal release-hardening ecosystems, such as Canary/CAS, CI/CD pipelines, or container orchestration.
- High proficiency with Google-internal pipeline/data stacks, such as Flume, SQLP, Rapid, CAS, or F1.
Pay
$298,000 — $368,000 USD (base salary)
Tools
C++, Flume, Apache Spark, Flink, Canary/CAS, CI/CD, SQLP, F1
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