Senior Data Infra Engineer — High-Throughput, Secure Pipelines (Hybrid)

Waymo; Mountain View (CA); Hybrid; USD 213,000 - 263,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Discretionary annual bonus

Equity incentive plan

Company benefits program

Job summary

Waymo in Mountain View, CA is seeking a backend software engineer to design and maintain high-throughput distributed services powering the Waymo Driver data lake. You will own data ingestion from telemetry and logs and help standardize data pipelines.

The role emphasizes privacy, security, and rigorous operations with canary rollouts and staging. Requires CS degree and 4+ years in distributed systems using C++ and SQL.

Qualifications

• BS/MS in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, or equivalent.
• 4+ years backend software engineering with distributed systems experience.
• Excellent understanding of data structures, algorithms, and software design principles.
• Advanced proficiency in C++ and SQL for high-throughput pipelines.
• Experience with hardened release setups and canary rollouts.

Responsibilities

• Design, develop, and maintain high-throughput distributed backend components and services powering Waymo's data lake.
• Own the scalable ingestion of data from telemetry and RPC logs, processing petabytes of logs into daily base tables.
• Build, harden, and democratize Data Pipeline Services with templates and self-service gateways for downstream use.
• Implement privacy, security infrastructure (GDPR wipeout, ACL management, identity proxies).
• Establish rigorous operational standards with regression tests, staging environments, Canary/Progressive rollouts to defend high SLO.
• Collaborate with Data Engineers and Product Data Scientists to set global platform consistency and DAG guidelines.

Skills

C++

SQL

Distributed systems

Data structures & algorithms

Release pipelines

Education

BS/MS in Computer Science or equivalent

Tools

Flume

Spark

Flink

Beam

Hadoop

Job description

Waymo in Mountain View, CA is seeking a backend software engineer to design and maintain high-throughput distributed services powering the Waymo Driver data lake. You will own data ingestion from telemetry and logs and help standardize data pipelines.

The role emphasizes privacy, security, and rigorous operations with canary rollouts and staging. Requires CS degree and 4+ years in distributed systems using C++ and SQL.