Software Engineer, Logs Infrastructure

Waymo Driver has already safely delivered tens of millions of rider-only trips across 100 million real-world miles, but our journey is just beginning. We are actively expanding into new markets and pioneering advanced technology that redefines the future of global mobility.

The Waymo Logs Infrastructure powers critical decision making and model development effort, with subsystems such as onboard data collection, ingestion, processing, storage, and serving, all operating at planet scale where efficiency and resiliency is paramount.

If autonomous driving and large scale infrastructure aligns with your passions and skills, please come join us to build the future together.

In this Hybrid role you will report to the Tech Lead Manager.

You will:

Create Impact & Foster Innovation

• Data Collection:
  
  
  
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    • Onboard logging collection infrastructure, including data formats, APIs, and libraries
    • Data ingestion pipeline, including uploader modules over LTE/Wifi/wired connections, temporary storage
    • Offboard components that facilitate onboard data collection and ingestion, including quotas, sampling, and prioritized upload requests
    • Strategy and onboard+offboard infrastructure that maximizes the value of the limited data collected in the face of multiple requirements, physical and budgetary constraints, safety and regulatory requirements. This includes application of novel statistical sampling methods and ML
    • Achieving operational readiness to scale #miles driven by orders of magnitude, including reliability improvements and elimination of overheads that scale linearly with miles
    
    
    
    
  
  
  
  

• Data Storage:
  
  
  
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    • Storage management aspects, including file formats, encodings, replication, rebalancing, integrity, durability, backends and APIs
    • Dataset management aspects, including metadata, versioning, lifetime control, quotas and APIs for set/membership management
    • Ensuring the privacy and trust of our riders by leading data stewardship and regulatory compliance (e.g., GDPR)
    • Responsibility for overall storage cost. This includes tooling required for data curation, plus defining and implementing storage cost control policies spanning multiple Waymo teams
    
    
    
    
  
  
  
  

You have:

• 3+ years of professional software engineering experience
• 3+ years of experience working on large-scale distributed systems
• 3+ years of experience with C++
• Proven track record of fostering collaboration effectively across organizational boundaries
• Strong ability to document technical designs, processes, and communicate clearly with cross-functional teams

We prefer:

• Building large scale storage systems (onboard and offboard)
• Familiarity with Backend Infrastructure / Streaming Infrastructure / Batch Infrastructure
• Sampling / Compression / Fleet Optimization algorithms
• Building dataset management infrastructure
• Track record of successfully executing forward looking innovative solutions
• Track record of consistent delivery of high-quality code

We know that great engineers come from all sorts of backgrounds. If you're passionate about this role but don't check every single box, we still encourage you to apply.