Pipeline SRE Lead — Release Reliability at Scale

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

Benefits offered by this job

Annual bonus program

Equity incentives

Benefits program

Job summary

Waymo, a leader in autonomous driving, is seeking a Pipeline SRE Lead to drive reliability of release pipelines for our autonomous driving software. You will oversee observability, incident management, capacity planning, and continuous improvement of production systems in a hybrid work setup reporting to the Head of Planner in Onboard.

The role requires a Master’s or PhD in CS/Engineering, 10+ years of experience with large-scale production systems and hands-on C++ coding, on-call leadership,

Qualifications

• 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 on hands on coding experience with C++.
• Experience organizing and running oncall rotations.
• Excellent influence without authority skills.
• Strong collaboration and communication; focus on value add to the company and team.
• Deep expertise in architecting large scale distributed systems, observability, monitoring, and incident management.
• Strong background in distributed systems, cloud infrastructure, and production operations at scale.
• Proficiency with automation, infrastructure and modern DevOps/SRE tooling.
• Track record of improving system reliability through data-driven approaches.

Responsibilities

• Drive incident response processes, retrospectives, and continuous improvement for release outages.
• Organize and participate in on-call rotations for release oriented outages and disaster recovery planning.
• Harden software, develop playbooks, and improve on-call metrics and post-mitigation workstreams.
• Lead engineering analysis and response to rare or unexpected events in the development cycle.
• Promote reliability culture across Onboard, Eval and Simulator groups.

Skills

SRE leadership

C++

On-call management

Distributed systems

Observability

Cloud infrastructure

DevOps tooling

Incident management

Data-driven problem solving

Communication

Education

Master's or PhD in Computer Science, Engineering, or related field

Job description

Waymo, a leader in autonomous driving, is seeking a Pipeline SRE Lead to drive reliability of release pipelines for our autonomous driving software. You will oversee observability, incident management, capacity planning, and continuous improvement of production systems in a hybrid work setup reporting to the Head of Planner in Onboard.

The role requires a Master’s or PhD in CS/Engineering, 10+ years of experience with large-scale production systems and hands-on C++ coding, on-call leadership,