Site Reliability Engineer (Fleet)

Location: Mountain View, California, United States; hybrid role.

Salary: $298,000–$368,000 USD annual base salary, plus potential annual bonus, equity, and company benefits.

Company

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

What you will do

• Lead incident response, retrospectives, on-call rotations, disaster recovery planning, and business continuity for critical production systems.
• Harden software, create operational playbooks, improve on-call metrics, and drive post-mitigation work.
• Lead investigations and engineering responses to novel, rare, or unexpected events.
• Promote reliability engineering practices across the Onboard, Eval, and Simulator organizations.
• Contribute to software architecture improvements 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-learning 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 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 more than 1,000 people.

Culture & Benefits

• Work in a hybrid environment reporting to the Head of Site Reliability Engineering.
• Collaborate across engineering organizations to improve reliability practices.
• Eligibility for a discretionary annual bonus, equity incentive plan, and company benefits program.