Job brief: Senior Staff Site Reliability Engineer, Lead

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• Listed on Waymo's own job board. JoRoute does not take listings from job ads or recruiters.
• First seen by JoRoute 2026-11-04 (5 days ago); last confirmed on the board 2026-11-09.
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• No other listing with this title and place on this board in the last 90 days.
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What the listing says · Employer's own words, not checked

• Pay: $298,000 to $368,000 a year
• Job type: Not stated
• Where: Mountain View, CA, USA · Mountain View (US-MTV-EMF680)
• Posted: 2026-09-04 · over 60 days ago

What the job asks · Employer's own words, not checked

Level: Lead / staff. The title says "Staff".

Must have

• Master's degree or PhD in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related technical field
• 15+ years of experience working on large-scale production software systems, especially machine learned systems
• 15+ years on hands on coding experience with C++
• 15+ years of experience leading hybrid hardware/software production systems

Conditions

• This is a hybrid role and reports to the Head of Site Reliability Engineering.
• Organize and participate in on call rotations for release oriented outages, along with disaster recovery planning and business continuity

Main duties

• Drive incident response processes, retrospectives, and continuous improvement to prevent recurring issues. Organize and participate in on call rotations for …
• Harden software, develop playbooks, improve oncall metrics and post-mitigation workstreams, and improve robustness of the software system running our most cr…
• Lead the engineering analysis and response to novel, rare or unexpected events encountered during our development analysis cycle.
• Champion a culture of reliability engineering across the organization, including partnering with organization leads and others across the Onboard, Eval and S…
• Contribute to system software architecture to help improve its robustness and debuggability

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How it compares · Compared by JoRoute from listings

• Typical listed pay for engineer jobs in Mountain View, CA: $238k a year (219 listings, 3 employers). This listing is 40% higher.
• Across Waymo's 317 open listings, 50% of those with a posting date were first posted more than 60 days ago. How Waymo hires

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