Software Engineer, Logs Storage Infrastructure

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.

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

The Waymo Logs Storage team owns the infrastructure for storing driven and simulated data of Waymo cars.

In this Hybrid role you will report to the Tech Lead Manager.

You will

• Brainstorm, design and build new storage infrastructure features, in alignment with Waymo business priorities.


• Build and leverage relationships with partner teams to deliver solutions spanning organizational boundaries.


• 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.


• Provide support for partners and clients.


• Responsible for overall storage cost. This includes tooling required for data curation, plus defining and implementing storage cost control policies spanning multiple Waymo teams.

You have:

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  4+ years of professional software engineering experience.



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  4+ years of experience working on large-scale distributed systems.



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  4+ years of experience with C++.



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  Proven track record of driving collaboration effectively across organizational boundaries.



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  Strong ability to document technical designs, processes, and communicate clearly with cross-functional teams.

We prefer:

• 3+ years of experience building large scale storage systems.


• 3+ years of experience building dataset management infrastructure.


• Track record of successfully executing forward looking ambitious bets.


• Track record of high coding productivity

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

$170,000—$216,000 USD