Waymo · 1 month ago
Senior Staff Software Engineer
Mountain View, CA
Full-time
Onsite
Senior Level, Lead/Staff
$281K/yr - $356K/yrWaymo is an autonomous driving technology company with the mission to be the world's most trusted driver. They are seeking an exceptional Senior Staff Software Engineer to provide technical leadership and architectural vision for their core data platforms that power insights and decision-making.
Artificial Intelligence (AI)AutomotiveAutonomous VehiclesSensorTransportation
Responsibilities
Lead the architectural design and technical strategy for Waymo's core data platforms, encompassing a "Single Source of Truth" data lake for Commercialization and “Metrics Portability and Standardization” for Driver Evaluations
Establish and enforce comprehensive data governance frameworks across the data ecosystem, enabling easy data discoverability, and enhancing data quality
Identify and address inefficiencies in the data development lifecycle. Drive initiatives to improve developer productivity, streamline workflows, and enhance the overall effectiveness of the data engineering and metrics development functions in Waymo
Serve as a lead technical liaison, collaborating deeply with Simulation, Onboard, ML, and Commercialization teams to understand data needs, define data contracts, translate requirements into technical solutions, and ensure alignment on architectural direction
Mentor senior engineers, guide critical technical decisions, and champion best practices in data engineering, including system reliability, efficiency, developer experience, and innovation to address new challenges
Qualification
Required
Proven track record of setting technical vision, driving multi-quarter roadmaps, and delivering impactful data projects as a technical lead for senior engineering teams, with demonstrated ability to influence across organizational boundaries
Excellent communication skills, with the ability to articulate complex technical designs, trade-offs, and strategies to diverse stakeholders, including senior leadership and partner engineering, data scientists, and product teams
Extensive experience architecting, building, and operating complex, large-scale distributed data systems (e.g., data lakes, lakehouse, data mesh, streaming platforms, query engines)
Deep expertise in designing and implementing data governance principles, including metadata systems, data lineage, data quality frameworks, and data discoverability solutions at scale
Strong experience in designing and evolving data-centric APIs, schemas, and data contracts to ensure system interoperability, portability, and long-term maintainability
Expertise in data pipeline and query engine development and proficiencies in writing both SQL and one of C++/Java/Python code language
Preferred
Familiarity with data from autonomous vehicle operations, logistics, or ride-hailing business domains
Experience with Google's data infrastructure and tools such as F1 Query, Napa, Flume, Plx, or Google Cloud Platform (GCP) data services such as BigQuery, Cloud Dataflow, etc
Benefits
Waymo’s discretionary annual bonus program
Equity incentive plan
Generous Company benefits program
Company
Waymo
Waymo is a mobility technology company that improves transportation by developing self-driving solutions for travelers and daily commuters. It is a sub-organization of Alphabet.
Founded in 2009
1001-5000 employees
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Funding
Current Stage
Late StageTotal Funding
$11.1BKey Investors
Alphabet
2024-07-23Series C· $5.6B
2021-06-16Series B· $2.5B
2020-05-12Series A· $750M
Leadership Team
Tekedra Mawakana
Co-Chief Executive Officer
Annabel Chang
Head of State Policy & Government Relations
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