Waymo
Technical Lead Manager, Query & Storage SWE
$251K–$310K
Mountain View, California, USA +2 · Manager · Full-time · Posted May 22, 2026
- Location
- Mountain View, California, USA
Mountain View, California, United States
San Francisco, California, United States - Experience
- 8+ years of software engineering experience; 2+ years of engineering management or technical leadership experience.
- Education
- BS, MS, or PhD in Computer Science or a related field.
About the job
Leads a software engineering team building and operating large-scale data pipeline, storage, and query infrastructure for Waymo Driver development and commercialization.
What you'll do
- Lead, mentor, and grow software engineers while fostering engineering excellence and collaboration.
- Set the technical roadmap and drive design, development, and operation of scalable distributed data systems.
- Own systems end to end and collaborate with Engineering and Data Science stakeholders.
What they ask for
- BS, MS, or PhD in Computer Science or a related field.
- 8+ years of software engineering experience designing and building large-scale distributed systems.
- Deep understanding of query engines, query optimization, and storage systems.
- 2+ years in engineering management or technical leadership; proficiency in SQL and one of C++/Java/Python.
Nice to have
- Experience with data warehousing, data modeling, SQL optimization, and data processing frameworks such as Flume, Spark, or Beam.
- Familiarity with Google's internal data infrastructure, or domain knowledge in autonomous vehicles, robotics, or large-scale data analysis.
Pay
$251,000 — $310,000 USD (base salary)
Tools
SQL, C++, Java, Python, F1 Query, Presto, Bigtable, Spanner
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