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Site Reliability Engineer, Lead

Waymo
Location
Mountain View, CA, USA
Posted
16 days ago
Department
CSI (7LV)
What they actually want (must-haves)
  • Master's degree or PhD in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related technical field
  • 10+ years of experience working on large-scale production software systems, especially machine learned systems
  • 10+ years of hands-on coding experience with C++
  • Experience organizing and running oncall rotations
  • Excellent influence without authority skills
  • Organizational awareness, extremely collaborative, strong communication, focus on value add to the company and to the team
Nice to have
  • Experience leading hybrid hardware/software production systems
  • Experience leading teams who work on modern deep ML / large scale models
  • Track record of bringing about change in 1000+ person engineering organizations
What the job really is

As a Site Reliability Engineer Lead at Waymo, you will be responsible for ensuring the reliability of critical release pipelines for autonomous driving technology. Your role will involve incident response, capacity planning, and continuous improvement of production systems, while collaborating with engineering teams to enhance software robustness. You will also lead efforts in incident management and promote reliability engineering practices across the organization.

Benefits
  • Discretionary annual bonus program
  • Equity incentive plan
  • Generous Company benefits program
Things to weigh
  • No specific details on the hybrid work schedule
  • Salary range provided but based on various factors, actual pay may vary
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Career value5/5
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