Waymo

Analysis Infra SWE

Waymo · Mountain View, CA
Mountain View, CA $204K–$259K Posted 2026-09-02
Salary
$204K–$259K
Type
Full-time
Experience
5+ yr

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:

  • Develop and maintain a data processing platform used by onboard and offboard teams to extract signals from petabytes of driving logs and simulation traces.
  • Design and build low-latency streaming data processing platform, enabling real-time identification of critical driving events.
  • Improve the reliability, scalability, and efficiency of our signal generation infrastructure, establishing SLOs and reducing operational toil for massive-scale data processing jobs.
  • Collaborate with cross-functional partners in Perception, Planner, and Data Science to migrate legacy pipelines to modern infrastructure and support new analytical use cases.

You have:

  • BS or MS in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, or equivalent
  • 5+ years of professional experience in backend engineering, databases, and production monitoring (3+ years for L4, and relevant internship for L3)
  • Experience in leading projects and driving collaborating with cross-functional teams (for L4 and L3, this is not required and can be moved to preferred below)
  • Experience with general-purpose programming languages, especially C++.

Experience   Comment start  with capacity planning, resource forecasting models, and cost attribution strategies for high-throughput or streaming data processing infrastructure.  Comment end

  • Excellent collaboration and communication skills

We prefer:

  • Familiarity with distributed processing frameworks (e.g. Hadoop, Flume, and Spark) with stream processing frameworks (e.g., Flink, Flume Streaming, Kafka).
  • Proven track record of driving collaboration effectively across organizational boundaries, building multi-dimensional stakeholder relationships, and importing and exporting ideas to achieve broad organizational goals
  • Familiarity with infrastructure-as-code and reliability engineering practices (SLOs, error budgets)

The expected base salary range for this full-time position across US locations is listed below. Actual starting pay will be based on job-related factors, including exact work location, experience, relevant training and education, and skill level. Your recruiter can share more about the specific salary range for the role location or, if the role can be performed remote, the specific salary range for your preferred location, during the hiring process.

Waymo employees are also eligible to participate in Waymo’s discretionary annual bonus program, equity incentive plan, and generous Company benefits program, subject to eligibility requirements.

Salary Range
$204,000 — $259,000 USD

HadoopSparkKafka
$60K — 10th pctl $230K — 90th pctl
This role’s midpoint $231K vs. market median $130K for Operations roles
+80%
above median
Based on 19,000+ Operations roles with disclosed salary ranges tracked on NewJob.
Waymo

Waymo

Autonomous Vehicles · Private · Mountain View, USA

Stage & Valuation
Private · $110B
Key Investors
Alphabet, Dragoneer Investment Group, Sequoia Capital
Open roles on NewJob
Most hiring in
Engineering (193) · Operations (51) · Data & ML (41)
Waymo is an autonomous driving technology company that develops self-driving vehicles and operates a commercial ride-hailing service called Waymo One.
Autonomous Vehicles AI Transportation
O
Director, Foundation Model Data Recipes
Mountain View, CA Hybrid
Operations
$349K–$431K
E
Principal ML Systems Architect – Foundation Models
Mountain View, CA Hybrid
Engineering
$349K–$431K
E
Principal Software Engineer, ML System Architect
Mountain View, CA Hybrid
Engineering
$349K–$431K
See all 490+ roles at Waymo →
X
Member of Technical Staff - Data Platform
xAI Palo Alto, CA
Operations
$180K–$440K
A
Staff SDET - Open Data Platform
Acceldata Bangalore, India
Operations
D
Manager - Tech Solutions
Databricks Bangalore, India
Operations
E
Especialista de Arquitetura de TI I
Experian São Paulo, Brazil
Operations
See all Operations roles →

Interested in this role?

Apply directly on the company site — no recruiter middleman, no account required.

Apply now →
Apply on company site