Hybrid Senior SRE Tech Lead — Planet-Scale Reliability & ML

Devopsroles; Mountain View (CA); Hybrid; USD 298,000 - 368,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Discretionary annual bonus

Equity incentive plan

Company benefits program

Job summary

Waymo is seeking a hands-on SRE Tech Lead to drive reliability, performance, and resilience of our critical services. You will lead observability, incident management, capacity planning, and improvements for our global production systems.

This role reports to the Head of Site Reliability Engineering and involves collaboration with Onboard, Eval, and Simulator teams. You have a Master's or PhD in CS/Engineering, 15+ years in large-scale systems, and extensive C++ coding and on-call leadership.

Qualifications

• Master's degree or PhD in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related technical field.
• 15+ years of experience working on large-scale production software systems, especially machine learned systems.
• 15+ years on hands on coding experience with C++.
• Experience organizing and running oncall rotations.
• Excellent influence without authority skills.
• Strong communication and collaboration skills with focus on value.
• Deep expertise in architecting large-scale distributed systems, observability tools, monitoring systems, and incident management practices.
• Proficiency with automation, infrastructure and modern DevOps/SRE tooling.

Responsibilities

• Drive incident response processes, retrospectives, and continuous improvement to prevent recurring issues.
• Harden software, develop playbooks, improve oncall metrics and post-mitigation workstreams.
• Lead the engineering analysis and response to novel, rare or unexpected events.
• Champion a culture of reliability engineering across the organization, including partnering with leads across Onboard, Eval and Simulator organizations.
• Contribute to system software architecture to improve robustness and debuggability.

Skills

15+ years experience

C++ programming

Distributed systems

On-call leadership

Observability

Education

Master's degree or PhD in Computer Science or Engineering

Tools

Cloud infrastructure

Job description

Waymo is seeking a hands-on SRE Tech Lead to drive reliability, performance, and resilience of our critical services. You will lead observability, incident management, capacity planning, and improvements for our global production systems.

This role reports to the Head of Site Reliability Engineering and involves collaboration with Onboard, Eval, and Simulator teams. You have a Master's or PhD in CS/Engineering, 15+ years in large-scale systems, and extensive C++ coding and on-call leadership.