Technical Lead Manager, Simulation Infrastructure

Waymo is an autonomous driving technology company with the mission to be the 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 One, a fully autonomous ride-hailing service, and can also be applied to a range of vehicle platforms and product use cases. The Waymo Driver has provided over one million rider-only trips, enabled by its experience autonomously driving tens of millions of miles on public roads and tens of billions in simulation across 13+ U.S. states.

Want to build the next generation of infrastructure for driverless cars? Join the Waymo Simulation Infrastructure team, and help power the future of transportation! We are looking for a passionate Staff SWE who wants to help build and manage planet-scale distributed systems. If you're someone who's curious and passionate about solving deep technical problems, and love collaborating across many teams to develop and deliver reliable, scalable, and cost-effective Infra services and tools, then we'd like to meet you!

In this role will report to a Senior Staff Software Engineer/TLM.

You will:

• Lead an Infrastructure team that builds and maintains reliable, highly-scalable, and cost-effective production services to run Simulation-based Evaluation of the Waymo Driver
• Set the technical vision and direction for your team, and also influence the direction of the broader Infrastructure Organization.
• Manage a team of 3-4 junior and senior SWEs,
• Contribute production grade code, execute code reviews, drive and influence detailed technical designs
• Align and define plans for your team in addition to influencing planning and strategy of partners and the larger Organization

You have:

• Hands-on experience building large-scale distributed systems
• Proficient in C++, or a desire or openness to learn C++
• 2+ years directly managing Software Engineers
• Demonstrated experience working cross functionally with Product, Program, Data Science, etc.
• History of data-driven decision-making

It's a bonus if you have:

• Experience working with different types of large scale systems
• Familiarity with Google infrastructure (e.g. Flume, Borg)
• 10+ years experience in software development
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