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.
As SRE (Uber tech Lead) UTL, you will play a key role in driving the reliability, performance, and resilience of our most critical services. You’ll lead the strategy and execution for observability, incident management, capacity planning, and continuous improvement of our global scale production systems. You will be accountable for the response to novel, rare, or unexpected events encountered during the operation of our most critical systems. This includes both spearheading timely investigations and resolutions, as well as proactively partnering with engineering to evolve our software system to enhance their robustness and adaptability.This unique role encompasses our commercialisation services along with our planet scale software delivery systems, both of which underpin our rapidly growing and evolving fleet of autonomous vehicles operating in multiple cities. The challenges of ensuring reliability at our scale and pace is unprecedented. If you are a hands-on SRE tech lead, with strong software engineering skills, who is passionate about solving first-of-their-kind problems with significant real-world planet scale impact, we'd like to meet you.
This is a hybrid role and reports to the Head of Site Reliability Engineering.
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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.