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Waymo · 7 hours ago

Director of Site Reliability Engineering

Waymo is an autonomous driving technology company with the mission to be the world's most trusted driver. As Director of Site Reliability Engineering, you will ensure that Waymo operates with the reliability, performance, and resilience that our customers expect, leading the strategy and execution for observability, incident management, and continuous improvement of production systems.

Artificial Intelligence (AI)AutomotiveAutonomous VehiclesSensorTransportation
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Responsibilities

Define and execute the strategic roadmap for reliability, observability and automation
Build and lead a world-class SRE organization that ensures exceptional reliability and performance of production systems
Establish comprehensive observability across the Waymo including monitoring, logging, tracing, and alerting
Define and achieve ambitious SLOs that meet the demands of 24/7 operations used by millions for customers
Drive incident response processes, post-mortems, and continuous improvement to prevent recurring issues
Lead capacity planning and performance optimization to ensure the production systems scale efficiently
Implement automation for deployment, operations, and remediation to reduce toil and improve reliability
Champion a culture of reliability engineering across the organization, educating teams on best practices
Manage disaster recovery planning and business continuity

Qualification

Site Reliability EngineeringObservability toolsIncident managementDistributed systemsCloud infrastructureDevOps toolingCrisis leadershipCollaboration skills

Required

10+ years of experience in software engineering or SRE roles with 5+ years in SRE leadership
Deep expertise in observability tools, monitoring systems, and incident management practices
Strong background in distributed systems, cloud infrastructure, and production operations at scale
Proficiency with automation, infrastructure and modern DevOps/SRE tooling
Track record of improving system reliability through data-driven approaches and systematic problem-solving
Excellent incident management and crisis leadership skills
Strong collaboration abilities and experience partnering with engineering teams to improve reliability

Benefits

Waymo’s discretionary annual bonus program
Equity incentive plan
Generous Company benefits program

Company

Waymo is a mobility technology company that improves transportation by developing self-driving solutions for travelers and daily commuters. It is a sub-organization of Alphabet.

H1B Sponsorship

Waymo has a track record of offering H1B sponsorships. Please note that this does not guarantee sponsorship for this specific role. Below presents additional info for your reference. (Data Powered by US Department of Labor)
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2025 (231)
2024 (175)
2023 (268)
2022 (306)
2021 (298)
2020 (317)

Funding

Current Stage
Late Stage
Total Funding
$27.1B
Key Investors
Alphabet,Dragoneer Investment Group,DST Global,Sequoia CapitalAlphabetFidelity,Perry Creek Capital,T. Rowe Price
2026-02-02Series D· $16B
2024-07-23Series C· $5.6B
2021-06-16Series B· $2.5B

Leadership Team

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Tekedra Mawakana
Co-Chief Executive Officer
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Annabel Chang
Director of U.S. State and Local Public Policy and Political Campaigns
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