Staff Software Engineer, Webviz

1 month, 1 week ago
Full-time
Lead
Software Development

Waymo

Waymo is an autonomous driving technology company building the Waymo Driver and operating Waymo One, its fully autonomous ride-hailing service.

Autonomous vehicles, robotics, AI, ride-hailing / mobility tech
Founded 2009
$21600M raised

Description

  • Build and maintain concurrent C++ backend services that stream time-series and sensor data to the Webviz client.
  • Scale C++ data delivery abstractions for offboard storage systems and WebRTC streams.
  • Optimize latency and throughput through log sampling, payload post-processing, and asynchronous C++ services.
  • Build backend APIs for automated callers such as triage bots and evaluation executors to render driving scenes.
  • Own the scaling, security, and performance isolation of offboard data infrastructure.
  • Plan technical roadmaps for backend infrastructure and data streaming systems.
  • Mentor engineers, review system designs, and establish systems-level C++ best practices.

Requirements

  • Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, a related technical field, or equivalent practical experience.
  • 5 years of software development experience in C++.
  • Experience with systems programming, including multi-threading, concurrency, memory efficiency, and profiling.
  • Experience building high-throughput distributed systems, RPC services, or time-series data pipelines.
  • Experience leading technical designs and mentoring engineers on complex, multi-quarter projects.
  • Experience with Google-internal infrastructure such as Borg, Boq, Stubby/gRPC, CNS, and Spanner (preferred).
  • Experience developing backend systems for video/image rendering, WebRTC, or developer tools (preferred).
  • Familiarity with autonomous vehicle data formats such as RoadGraph, sensor logs, and trajectory prediction outputs (preferred).
  • Familiarity with web client architectures such as Angular and TypeScript to design client-server APIs (preferred).
  • Experience with TDD, performance profiling, and integration testing (preferred).

Benefits

  • Base salary range of $251,000 to $310,000 USD.
  • Eligibility for Waymo’s discretionary annual bonus program.
  • Eligibility for Waymo’s equity incentive plan.
  • Access to Waymo’s generous company benefits program, subject to eligibility requirements.

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