Waymo Driver has already safely delivered tens of millions of rider-only trips across 100 million real-world miles, but our journey is just beginning. We are actively expanding into new markets and pioneering advanced technology that redefines the future of global mobility.

The Waymo Logs Infrastructure powers critical decision making and model development effort, with subsystems such as onboard data collection, ingestion, processing, storage, and serving, all operating at planet scale where efficiency and resiliency is paramount.

If autonomous driving and large scale infrastructure aligns with your passions and skills, please come join us to build the future together.

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

You will:

• Work in close relationships with partners and stakeholders across Waymo (Simulation, Planner, Perception, Analysis, Release Eval, Onboard Infra, Mapping, Ops, Hardware, Depot Infra, Legal, Product) to build joint strategy and roadmaps
• Understand and improve the behavior of production systems, including instrumentation, bug fixes, provisioning, and reliability improvements
• Improve the automation, code health, technical debt and simplify the system
• Brainstorm, design and build new infrastructure features
• Provide support for partners and clients

You have:

• 4+ years of professional software engineering experience
• Experience working on large-scale distributed systems
• Proven track record of driving collaboration effectively across organizational boundaries
• Good working knowledge of C++ (3+ years active coding experiences)
• Strong ability to document technical designs, processes, and communicate clearly with cross-functional teams   

We prefer:

• Familiarity with Data Engineering / Backend Infrastructure / Streaming Infrastructure
• Sampling / Compression / Fleet Optimization algorithms
• Resource Allocation Fairness
• Familiarity with Cloud Storage (e.g. S3 or GCS)