Site Reliability Engineer, Lead
Core
Lead reliability strategy and execution for Waymo's critical release pipelines and production systems supporting autonomous vehicle fleets.
Role type
Lead Site Reliability Engineer (Release Pipelines)
Builds
Production release pipelines and software systems for autonomous vehicle fleets
Domain
Autonomous driving, cloud infrastructure, distributed systems
Deliverable
production ML models | infrastructure
Required skills
C++ (10+ years), distributed systems architecture, observability tools, incident management, automation, DevOps/SRE tooling, data-driven problem solving
Preferred skills
Hybrid hardware/software systems leadership, modern deep ML/large scale models, change management in 1000+ person orgs
Technologies
C++, observability tools, monitoring systems, DevOps/SRE tooling
Responsibilities
Drive incident response processes and retrospectives, organize on-call rotations for release outages, harden software and develop playbooks, lead engineering analysis of novel events, champion reliability engineering culture, contribute to system software architecture
Seniority
Lead, hands-on IC with strategic scope