- Robot type
- Autonomous Vehicle
- Location
- Mountain ViewCaliforniaUSA
- Job type
- Software
- Posted
- Sep 4, 2026
- Salary
- $298,000–$368,000 a year
Site Reliability Engineer, Lead
Job description
As SRE (Uber tech Lead) UTL, you will play a key role in driving the reliability, performance, and resilience of our most critical services. You’ll lead the strategy and execution for observability, incident management, capacity planning, and continuous improvement of our global scale production systems. You will be accountable for the response to novel, rare, or unexpected events encountered during the operation of our most critical systems.
This is a hybrid role and reports to the Head of Site Reliability Engineering.
Waymo is an autonomous driving technology company with the mission to be the world's most trusted driver.
Job responsibilities
- Drive incident response processes, retrospectives, and continuous improvement to prevent recurring issues. Organize and participate in on call rotations for release oriented outages, along with disaster recovery…
- Harden software, develop playbooks, improve oncall metrics and post-mitigation workstreams, and improve robustness of the software system running our most critical release processes
- Lead the engineering analysis and response to novel, rare or unexpected events encountered during our development analysis cycle.
- Champion a culture of reliability engineering across the organization, including partnering with organization leads and others across the Onboard, Eval and Simulator organization to educate and improve large-scale…
- Contribute to system software architecture to help improve its robustness and debuggability
Job 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 on hands on coding experience with C++
- Experience organizing and running oncall rotations
- Excellent influence without authority skills
- Organizational awareness, extremely collaborative, strong communication, focus on value add to the company and to the team
- Deep expertise in architecting large scale distributred systems, observability tools, monitoring systems, and incident management practices
- Strong background in distributed systems, cloud infrastructure, and production operations at scale
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