Senior Software Engineer, TaaS 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.The TaaS (Transportation as a Service) and Ride-Hailing Infrastructure team builds mission-critical backend systems, as well as on-vehicle software, that allows Waymo's autonomous vehicles to operate at tremendous commercial scale.We think deeply and solve complex technical challenges in areas like Vehicle Route Optimization, Scalability, and Capacity Planning, while collaborating with software engineers, data scientists, and product managers both on and off the car. Our systems allow our vehicles to deliver people and goods safely and efficiently to their destinations - so if you're a software engineer who's curious and passionate about bringing Level 4 autonomous driving to the public, we'd like to meet you! In this role, you will report to our Senior Manager of Commercialization Software.In this hybrid role, you will report to a Software Engineering Manager.You will:

Design and develop platform and infrastructure that supports various ride-hailing businesses.Provide APIs for both our first-party service and partner services.Optimize the marketplace to balance the supply and utilization of Waymo's autonomous vehicle fleet.Work with experts in the field of autonomous vehicles.Implement and scale the backend for Waymo's ride-hailing services. This collection of systems manages trip requests; provides APIs to client apps and partner services; calculates pickup and ride times; matches right vehicles to riders; calculates the price of rides.Work closely with cross-functional partners to design and implement the ride-hailing platform to provide ride-hailing services for various different partners.Develop expertise in and make use of various Google technologies, like Borg, Spanner, Flume, and custom-built systems for our specific problems.You have:

BS degree in Computer Science or equivalent practical experience.5+ years of industry experience in general distributed systems and backend development.Proficient in C++, or a strong willingness to learn.We prefer:

MS in Computer Science, or equivalent practical experience.8+ years of experience in general distributed systems and backend development.8+ years of experience programming in C++ and/or with writing robust, efficient code.Experience in developing low latency, large scale, user-facing distributed systems.

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