# Senior Software Engineer at Waymo

- Company: Waymo
- Status: Open
- Workplace: On-site
- Location: Mountain View ; CA San Francisco, CA
- Level: Senior
- Discipline: Backend
- Employment: Full-time
- Salary: $213K–263K
- Posted: 2026-09-29
- Skills: CSI (7LV)
- Apply: https://careers.withwaymo.com/jobs?gh_jid=8211704

## Description

Waymo is an autonomous driving technology company with the mission to be the world's most trusted driver. Since its start as the Google Self-Driving Car Project in 2009, Waymo has focused on building the Waymo Driver—The World's Most Experienced Driver™—to improve access to mobility while saving thousands of lives now lost to traffic crashes. The Waymo Driver powers Waymo’s fully autonomous ride-hail service and can also be applied to a range of vehicle platforms and product use cases. The Waymo Driver has provided over ten million rider-only trips, enabled by its experience autonomously driving over 100 million miles on public roads and tens of billions in simulation across 15+ U.S. states.
 You will: 
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 Design and implement measures to increase the efficiency and decrease the cost of Fleet Response operations
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 Partner with other teams at Waymo to find headroom in their shares of operational workload
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 Generate and research ideas for new optimizations of the work operators perform
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 Work with onboard engineering teams to sunset operational work that is no longer necessary
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 Contribute to cross-functional analysis and optimization efforts
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 Improve regression-detection and culprit-finding for changes that negatively impact operational metrics
 You have: 
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 Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science or similar technical field of study
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 5+ years of industry experience navigating complex systems with distributed ownership
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 Experience with C++ or related structured programming language
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 A curious, investigative mindset with a bias towards action
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 Strong ab

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