Waymo

Waymo

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Software Reliability Engineer

Posted Aug 5, 2026

Role at a glance

Salary
$175K – $215K/yr
Location
Mountain View, California, United States San Francisco, California, United States
Work arrangement
Hybrid
Employment
Full-time
Experience
2+ years of experience writing clean, efficient code in C++, Java and/or Python
Education
A Bachelors degree in a relevant field or similar experience

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Role Summary

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The Software Reliability Engineer will help operate and improve Waymo’s fully autonomous systems and supporting infrastructure. The role focuses on reliable systems for the ride-hailing service, real-time communications between cars and offboard infrastructure, and service reliability.

What You'll Do

  • Collaborate with engineers to build reliable systems for the ride-hailing service and real-time communications between cars and offboard...
  • Measure system performance and develop automated solutions to improve end-to-end availability and performance
  • Participate in the full lifecycle of services from inception and design through deployment, operation, and refinement
  • Write designs and implement software to improve system architecture or telemetry, prevent outages, or reduce mean time to mitigation
  • Participate in a sustainable on-call incident response team and practice blameless retrospectives

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Qualifications

2+ years of experience writing clean, efficient code in C++, Java and/or Python; interest in distributed systems, production engineering, and transportation system technologies; experience in monitoring, debugging, automation, and scaling up systems; a Bachelors degree in a relevant field or similar experience.

Required

  • 2+ years of experience writing clean, efficient code in C++, Java and/or Python
  • Interest and enthusiasm for distributed systems, production engineering, and rapidly developing transportation system technologies
  • Experience in monitoring, debugging, automation, and scaling up systems
  • A Bachelors degree in a relevant field or similar experience

Preferred

  • Demonstrated ability as an individual contributor engineer, contributing to scalable, high quality software
  • 3+ years of industry experience
  • Bachelors of Computer Science (or similar)

Original job description

Content provided by the employer

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.

This role follows a hybrid work schedule and reports to the Tech Lead Manager.

 

You will:

  • Collaborate with other engineers to build reliable systems for the ride hailing service, real time communications between cars and offboard infrastructure, and more
  • Manage end-to-end availability and performance by measuring the system performance and developing automated solutions to improve it
  • Get involved in the whole lifecycle of services - from inception and design, through deployment, operation and refinement
  • Write designs and implement software to improve system architecture or telemetry, prevent outages, or reduce mean time to mitigation, in defense of service reliability
  • Act as frontline defense for the ride hailing service, participating in a sustainable oncall incident response team and practicing blameless retrospectives

 

You have:

  • 2+ years of experience writing clean, efficient code in C++, Java and/or Python
  • An interest and enthusiasm for distributed systems, production engineering, and rapidly developing transportation system technologies
  • Passion for distributed systems, rapidly evolving technologies behind transportation systems & autonomous driving, and production engineering
    in monitoring, debugging, automation, and scaling up systems
  • A Bachelors degree in a relevant field or similar experience

 

We prefer:

  • Demonstrated ability as an individual contributor engineer, contributing to scalable, high quality software
  • 3+ years of industry experience
  • Bachelors of Computer Science (or similar)

 

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
$175,000$215,000 USD
Waymo

About the company

Waymo

Large Enterprise

Waymo is a leading autonomous driving technology company, originally a part of Google's parent company Alphabet Inc. Established in 2009, Waymo focuses on developing self-driving cars and innovative transportation solutions designed to enhance mobility and safety on the roads. By employing advanced artificial intelligence and machine learning algorithms, the company aims to revolutionize personal and shared transportation, making it more accessible and efficient. Waymo's efforts contribute significantly to the future of autonomous vehicles and the ongoing shift towards smart transportation systems.