Senior Software Engineer, TaaS Infrastructure

The TaaS (Transportation as a Service) and Ride-Hailing Infrastructure team builds mission-critical backend systems, and on-vehicle software, that allows Waymo's autonomous vehicles to operate at tremendous commercial scale.

We 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 hybrid role, you will report to our Senior 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
• Optimizing 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; provide APIs to client apps and partner services; calculate pickup and ride times; match right vehicles to riders; calculate the price of rides.
• Work with partners to design and implement the ride-hailing platform to provide ride-hailing services for several 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++

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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