Software Reliability Engineer

Waymo|12 May 2026

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Job Description

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