Senior Staff Site Reliability Engineer, Lead

Highlights

• Lead reliability for planet-scale systems behind Waymo's autonomous fleet.
• Own response to novel events in commercialization and delivery systems.
• Shape robustness of services powering millions of rider-only trips.

What they offer

• Discretionary annual bonus program
• Equity incentive plan
• Generous Company benefits program

Ideal candidate

Hands-on SRE tech lead passionate about first-of-their-kind reliability challenges at planet scale. Collaborative influencer who champions resilience and continuous improvement across large engineering organizations.

Requirements

• 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 hands-on coding experience with C++
• Experience organizing and running oncall rotations
• Excellent influence without authority skills
• Organizational awareness, extremely collaborative, strong communication
• Deep expertise in architecting large-scale distributed systems, observability and monitoring
• 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