Site Reliability Engineer, Lead

Location: Mountain View, California, United States; hybrid work schedule

Salary: $298,000–$368,000 USD per year, plus eligibility for an annual bonus, equity incentive plan, and company benefits.

Company

Waymo develops autonomous driving technology and operates fully autonomous ride-hail services powered by the Waymo Driver.

What you will do

• Lead the reliability strategy and execution for critical software release pipelines.
• Drive incident response, retrospectives, on-call rotations, disaster recovery, and business continuity planning.
• Harden production software, develop operational playbooks, and improve on-call metrics and post-mitigation workstreams.
• Lead engineering analysis and response to novel, rare, or unexpected events during the development and release cycle.
• Promote reliability engineering practices across the Onboard, Eval, and Simulator organizations.
• Contribute to system software architecture focused on robustness and debuggability.

Requirements

• Master’s degree or PhD in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related technical field.
• 10+ years of experience with large-scale production software systems, especially machine-learned systems.
• 10+ years of hands-on coding experience with C++.
• Deep expertise in large-scale distributed systems, observability, monitoring, and incident management.
• Strong background in cloud infrastructure, production operations, automation, and modern DevOps/SRE tooling.
• Experience organizing on-call rotations, influencing without authority, and improving reliability through data-driven problem-solving.

Nice to have

• Experience leading hybrid hardware/software production systems.
• Experience leading teams working on deep machine learning and large-scale models.
• Experience driving change in engineering organizations of 1,000+ people.

Culture & Benefits

• Work on software delivery systems supporting a growing fleet of autonomous vehicles.
• Collaborate across the Onboard, Eval, and Simulator organizations.
• Eligibility for a discretionary annual bonus program.
• Eligibility for an equity incentive plan and company benefits program.