Senior Backend Engineer - Config Deployments & Experiments

Waymo LLC; San Francisco (CA); On-site; USD 175,000 - 215,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Annual bonus

Equity incentives

Benefits program

Job summary

Waymo LLC is seeking an experienced software engineer to design, implement, and maintain backend services that deliver configurations and features to a large autonomous-vehicle fleet. You will collaborate with product, operations, and data science teams to scale tools and ensure safe, reliable deployments.

The role emphasizes building mission-critical systems, rolling out features safely, and maintaining high standards for system reliability in a high-stakes automotive environment.

Qualifications

• 5+ years of professional software engineering experience.
• 3+ years of experience working on large-scale distributed systems.
• Proven ability to collaborate across organizational boundaries to align workflows.

Responsibilities

• Design, implement, and maintain backend services delivering configurations to Waymo's fleet.
• Build and evolve commercialization tools and systems at scale.
• Collaborate with Product, Ops, Data Science, and other teams to develop systems.

Skills

Distributed systems

Cross-functional collaboration

Documentation

Reliability and safety mindset

Tools

C++

Borg

Protocol Buffers

Spanner

Job description

Waymo LLC is seeking an experienced software engineer to design, implement, and maintain backend services that deliver configurations and features to a large autonomous-vehicle fleet. You will collaborate with product, operations, and data science teams to scale tools and ensure safe, reliable deployments.

The role emphasizes building mission-critical systems, rolling out features safely, and maintaining high standards for system reliability in a high-stakes automotive environment.