Data Infra Engineer (C++)

Location: Mountain View, California or San Francisco, California; hybrid work schedule

Salary: $213,000–$263,000 USD annually, plus potential annual bonus, equity incentives, and company benefits.

Company

Waymo develops autonomous driving technology, including the Waymo Driver and fully autonomous ride-hail services.

What you will do

• Design, develop, and maintain high-throughput distributed backend components and services using C++, Flume, Spark, Flink, and Beam.
• Build scalable ingestion systems for raw vehicle telemetry and RPC logs, processing petabytes of data into reliable daily canonical tables.
• Develop standardized Data Pipeline Services, templates, and self-service gateways for downstream users.
• Implement privacy, security, and compliance infrastructure, including GDPR wipeout, ACL management, BCID enforcement, and identity proxies.
• Establish regression testing, staging, canary releases, progressive rollouts, and automated operational standards for high SLOs.
• Collaborate with Data Engineers and Product Data Scientists on platform consistency, dependency tracing, and DAG architecture guidelines.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s or master’s degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, or equivalent experience.
• 4+ years of professional backend software engineering experience focused on distributed systems, databases, and production monitoring.
• Strong knowledge of data structures, algorithms, and software design principles.
• Advanced proficiency in C++ and SQL for high-throughput batch and streaming pipelines.
• Experience operating data pipelines with hardened releases, including canarying, staging environments, and automated rollbacks.

Nice to have

• Experience with large-scale distributed processing engines such as Spark, Flink, Beam, Hadoop, or Flume.
• Experience building and maintaining data warehouses or data lakes.
• Experience integrating data governance, privacy, or compliance layers such as encryption, GDPR, and RBAC/ACLs into infrastructure.
• Proficiency with Google-internal pipeline and data stacks including Flume, SQLP, Rapid, CAS, and F1.

Culture & Benefits

• Hybrid work schedule.
• Eligibility for a discretionary annual bonus program.
• Equity incentive plan, subject to eligibility requirements.
• Company benefits program, subject to eligibility requirements.