Hiring: Site Reliability Engineer, Lead Company: Waymo Location: Mountain View, CA Job Posted Time: 2026-09-09 17:59:47 Employment Type: Hybrid Target Skills & Keywords: Site Reliability Engineering, SRE, Incident Response, Observability, Capacity Planning, Distributed Systems, C++, Machine Learning Systems, On-Call Rotations, Disaster Recovery, Business Continuity, System Architecture, Monitoring, Playbooks, Reliability Engineering Experience: - 10+ years of experience working on large-scale production software systems, especially machine learned systems - 10+ years of hands-on coding experience with C++ - Experience organizing and running on-call rotations - Proven track record in incident response, retrospectives, and continuous improvement - Experience with disaster recovery planning and business continuity Required Skills: - Deep expertise in architecting large-scale distributed systems, observability tools, monitoring systems, and incident management practices - Strong software engineering skills with hands-on coding in C++ - Ability to drive incident response processes and lead engineering analysis of novel, rare, or unexpected events - Experience hardening software, developing playbooks, and improving on-call metrics - Strong background in system software architecture for robustness and debuggability - Excellent influence-without-authority skills - Organizational awareness, highly collaborative, strong communication, and focus on adding value to the company and team - Ability to champion a culture of reliability engineering across the organization Qualifications: - Master's degree or PhD in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related technical field - Hands-on SRE tech lead with strong software engineering skills - Passionate about solving first-of-their-kind problems with significant real-world planet-scale impact - Experience partnering with engineering teams to evolve software systems for enhanced robustness and adaptability Compensation: Not specified in the provided job text. Interested candidates, please apply directly through the job posting on company's career page or try via AI auto apply on this platform. Don’t miss this opportunity to join a forward-thinking team!